Jmac's Arcade #2 - Missile Command

Missile Command (Atari, 1980) and how I was too lazy to use the president of the United States as a lever in grade-school popularity contests, unlike certain people I could name.

The music is "Cool Galaxy" by Frenz. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=182647

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• missile
• command
• jmac
• cohasset
• massachusetts
• 1980s
• 1981
• atari
• arcade
• game
• memoirs
• nuclear
• war
• ronald
• reagan
• gabe
• classic

[uncolaman99]

Very interesting insight and personality. Thanks for sharing.

[jjohn2006]

Engaging essay matched with groovy music.  Jmac's 8-bit style is unstoppable.

[Everythingsleeps]

shut up dude

[cochranexyz]

@mikper7 Wahhhhhhhhhhhh. 

[Hania454]

@mikper7 Lol

[FissureFilms]

Excellent. Maybe you'll have better luck writing to Ira Glass.

[whyareall2]

Anyone else think he sounds like Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory at around 1:21, 2:13, 2:21, 2:45, 3:10, and 3:58?

[mikper7]

Dude, you could maybe have SHUT THE FU!@ UP for ten seconds and allowed us to hear the game sound! Other than that, thanks for the post!

[willegb6]

¨best song wen plaing missile command is tom sawyer!

[reggiee111]

Seminal, eh? As in semen hm? Coulda just said "influential" or something so the kids can understand :/ Great job, I think I have no choice but to subscribe.

[jeopardy60611]

I was obsessed with the low ammo warning in this game when I was a kid. I discovered that the triple beep sounds like the first three notes from the bass line from the song "Another One Bites The Dust," and a friend of mine told me that the song applies to the game because saying "another one bites the dust" can mean that you shoot a weapon and miss the target.