Missile Control, published by Video Gems in 1983 for the Atari 2600, takes Missile Command's defensive premise — protecting cities from a hail of missiles — but changes the defense mechanism: instead of firing at the projectiles, the player moves a paddle-controlled bar to intercept them, in a logic closer to Breakout than to the original tower shooter. It's a modest European clone, the kind that took advantage of an Atari hit's popularity to offer its own variant without paying for a license. It also holds a curious Easter egg: a specific switch combination reveals one of its developers' initials on screen.
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