In the early 90s I got my first Mac. There was an addictive game I played on it, although simple by today's standards. It showed a two-dimensional depiction of a city, with incoming missiles. The point was to take out the missiles before they destroyed a building. As the game progressed more and more missiles descended from the sky, making it harder to keep up. Whenever one got past you, there was a flash as it destroyed its target. But what was the name of that game??? Driving me nuts!
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Trying to identify vintage Mac missile game?
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A hunch says Missile Command? (Or at least a similar game)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command_(video_game))
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Command_(video_game))
Turns out there are two answers.
"Missle Command" is an Atari game that is still around and even available for iPhone; see links.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26023/missile-command
http://www.cultofmac.com/10388/cult-of-mac-favorite-missile-command-iphone-game/
However, the game that had me hooked was a similar black-and-white rendition named "Missile" -- link follows:
http://mrob.com/pub/comp/missile20.html
Now, if I can just remember the name of that other game where I navigated through space in a little ship, and when things would happen there were the coolest sampled sound effects. It was really clever ....
"Missle Command" is an Atari game that is still around and even available for iPhone; see links.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26023/missile-command
http://www.cultofmac.com/10388/cult-of-mac-favorite-missile-command-iphone-game/
However, the game that had me hooked was a similar black-and-white rendition named "Missile" -- link follows:
http://mrob.com/pub/comp/missile20.html
Now, if I can just remember the name of that other game where I navigated through space in a little ship, and when things would happen there were the coolest sampled sound effects. It was really clever ....
Hmmm, that's a bit vague.
Maelstrom maybe? I remember finding a version of it with Monty Python sound-effects, and then I re-drew a lot of the sprites in a pixel editor (loooonng time!) to match.
theres one called armageddon revamped in 2004 to run 0n osx. and still playable on 10.6.8
What kinds of "things" happened that triggered the sound effects? Just on that one sentence I could suggest Maelstrom, for example.
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I know this is an old thread but it might be Mac Missiles by none other than Avie Tevanian
There was a version of Missile Command for 512k Macs. http://macintoshgarden.org/games/missile-command-30
There's a really good version of Missile Command in Pangea Arcade. There's a free demo of it on their website too and it runs fine with OS X (including El Capitan). Here: http://pangeasoft.net/arcade/info.html
Holy Thread Resurrection Batman
@Belm 11 years later, it's definitely Patriot Command http://macintoshgarden.org/games/patriot-command - which I just rediscovered. Still great fun now and the sound effects are still good!
Sorry @okieman - CC'ed the wrong user!
@Belm 11 years later, it's definitely Patriot Command http://macintoshgarden.org/games/patriot-command - which I just rediscovered. Still great fun now and the sound effects are still good!
Sorry @okieman - CC'ed the wrong user!
