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In the spirit of Sabotage for the Apple 2.

Is anyone familiar with this? It made fun of paratroopers into Normandy.
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On 11/28/2025 9:44 PM, Elendil Wadwallow wrote:

In the spirit of Sabotage for the Apple 2.

Is anyone familiar with this? It made fun of paratroopers into Normandy.

Never heard of it, but it looks like a really simple version of Missile Command arcade game. So you might look for things similar to Missile
Command. I think there was a 'improved' version of Missile Command that
was given away on Epic called "Missile Command Reforged" that I have. I briefly tried.

Missile Command was one of the arcade games I liked, Not my favorite by
far, but I'd give it a play now and again, and got at least o.k. at it.
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Justisaur wrote:

On 11/28/2025 9:44 PM, Elendil Wadwallow wrote:

In the spirit of Sabotage for the Apple 2.

Is anyone familiar with this? It made fun of paratroopers into Normandy.

Never heard of it, but it looks like a really simple version of Missile Command arcade game.  So you might look for things similar to Missile Command.  I think there was a 'improved' version of Missile Command that was given away on Epic called "Missile Command Reforged" that I have.  I briefly tried.

Missile Command was one of the arcade games I liked, Not my favorite by
far, but I'd give it a play now and again, and got at least o.k. at it.

Ok, that makes sense. Hadn't made the connection. You don't target two
streams like in Missile Command. You see two parachuters landing in the
same file and you knock the top one's parachute off.
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 05:45:34 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Never heard of it, but it looks like a really simple version of Missile >Command arcade game. So you might look for things similar to Missile >Command. I think there was a 'improved' version of Missile Command that
was given away on Epic called "Missile Command Reforged" that I have. I >briefly tried.

Missile Command was one of the arcade games I liked, Not my favorite by
far, but I'd give it a play now and again, and got at least o.k. at it.

I encountered the game --under one name or the other-- first on a
friend's C64. It was funnish arcade action but didn't have much
longevity; it was just the same gameplay hit over and over again,
except faster each time.

There was a few DOS shareware ports - at least two I can recall: one
called " Ack-ack Attack" and another called "Night Raid"-- that came
out some years later. Both were more colorful but suffered from the
same gameplay issues.

These days, the closest equivalents, I think, would be those
first-person shovelware games that have you sit in a gunner's chair
and mow down enemies running at you (think "Incoming"). Basically
games which take the 'turret sections' from better-made FPS and turn
it into a complete game. There was a flurry of the sort made in the
early noughties, but the genre doesn't seem that active these days. (I
vaguely recall a few that had you manning the turret gun in a
helicopter too but I can't remember the title).

"Missile Command" at least had some strategy aspects to it, in that
you sometines had to sacrifice a city to save the others. And those
nifty trackballs too! A far better game, in my opinion. But overall I
was happier with the Infocom adventure games. ;-)



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