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Missile Defend Missile Defend - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

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Description

Using three atomic missile launching bases you defend your cities against incoming missiles. Enemy missiles may seperate into several missiles so shoot them down early because you only have a limited number of missiles.

Missile Defend was produced by Digimatic Italia in 1980.

Digimatic Italia released 3 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Digimatic Italia was based in United States.

Other machines made by Digimatic Italia during the time period Missile Defend was produced include: Magic Maggot, and Millepiedi

Specs

Name Missile Defend
Developer Digimatic Italia (United States)
Year 1980
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8717
Class Bootleg
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Trackball: Optical
  • Buttons: 3 - Fire Left|Fire Right|Fire Center
Sound Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

The game is an obvious bootleg of Atari's Missile Command. It is usually found with copies of Atari's ROM images so it is impossible to distinguish between the two without opening the cabinet.

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Cabinet Information

The game's cabinet is a copy of Atari's Missile Command. The marquee and sideart are ripped off from the Atari designs. The may be occasionally found in Zaccharia cabinets with a marquee that reads "MISSILE COMBAND" (actual spelling).

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Missile Command

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Missile Defend Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very rare - There is one known instance of this machine owned by an active member Missile Defend collector. It is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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