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In this 1980 arcade game you defend six cities from a hail of ballistic missiles by firing counter missiles from three bases, aiming a crosshair with a trackball. One of three buttons launches a missile from the matching base, and it explodes at the crosshair, leaving a fireball that lasts several seconds and destroys any enemy missile or craft that enters it. Each base holds ten missiles, and the one in the center fires faster than the other two. Some enemy missiles split in several, and later levels add smart bombs that evade a badly aimed missile, plus bombers and satellites that launch missiles of their own. Enemy weapons destroy any target in a single hit, and a level ends when all of them are destroyed or have reached their target. Every shot is a choice about where to place a fireball with limited missiles, which gives each level a clear problem to solve even now.
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