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[Keatah]

I do..

St. Petersburg
Rochester
Alexander
Chicago
Greensville
Geneva

[SoundGammon]

How about this from the Arcade prototype:

[Trinity]

DC, Chicago, New York, Denver, Las vegas, and Housten.

The base is here in Toledo.

Edited by Trinity, Mon Jan 2, 2012 1:32 PM.

[Pioneer4x4]

Uh, nope.

[JPjuice23]

Why? They'll all be obliterated anyways.

[Master Phruby]

Pittsburgh was always the first one to go for me. Why? I have no idea.

[Chuck D. Head]

I name the outside two cities; Expendableville and Sacrificial Town

[Dauber]

Never did because they all look the same...all look like downtown Chicago to me...

[Skylark68]

When I was a kid I did. I was a map nerd (even back then) and named them all after large cities in Texas: From left: El Paso, San Antonio, Austin, Ft. Worth, Dallas, and Houston.

[JPjuice23]

Here are what they were originally called.

"It is interesting to note that while the arcade game set no specific time or place, the original design cast the six cities in the game as six major cities on the west coast of the United States: Eureka, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego. However, the manual for the Atari 2600 version of the game provides an entirely fictional back story for the game, presented here."

And I guess Dave Theurer, suffered from nightmares of these cities being destroyed by a nuclear blast.

Source: Wikipedia

[save2600]

Pioneer4x4, on Mon Jan 2, 2012 10:19 PM, said:

Uh, nope.

Me neither, but I like some of the names you guys have come up with.

Edited by save2600, Tue Jan 3, 2012 5:53 PM.

[Pioneer4x4]

Master Phruby, on Tue Jan 3, 2012 9:33 AM, said:

Pittsburgh was always the first one to go for me. Why? I have no idea.

If I did name them I would call them all Cleveland and not fire a shot ; -)

[Trinity]

Pioneer4x4, on Tue Jan 3, 2012 6:39 PM, said:

Master Phruby, on Tue Jan 3, 2012 9:33 AM, said:

Pittsburgh was always the first one to go for me. Why? I have no idea.

If I did name them I would call them all Cleveland and not fire a shot ; -)

HAHAHA!

[JacobZu7zu7]

No never did, never thought of it... maybe I will now lol

[Cafeman]

I name my cities 'Tempest', 'Stan Jr', 'Moycon' and other longtime AA'ers' names. Tempest usually buys the farm first.

Hey that sounds like a fun 5200 hack (not sure you could do it on 2600) ... change the cities graphic to a blocky 'person' graphic with names underneath.

[Master Phruby]

Someone needs to write a reverse Missile Command for the 2600.

[Keatah]

Like liberator??

[Master Phruby]

Keatah, on Wed Jan 4, 2012 3:41 PM, said:

Like liberator??

Something like that but....different.

[jcleverly]

JPjuice23, on Tue Jan 3, 2012 4:52 PM, said:

Here are what they were originally called.

i read in some video game/arcade book that they were originally gonna have dip switchable city names based on what part of the country the person was in. that got scrapped along with the more populated control panel/console thing they had too.

[Keatah]

jcleverly, on Thu Jan 5, 2012 12:21 AM, said:

JPjuice23, on Tue Jan 3, 2012 4:52 PM, said:

Here are what they were originally called.

i read in some video game/arcade book that they were originally gonna have dip switchable city names based on what part of the country the person was in. that got scrapped along with the more populated control panel/console thing they had too.

What a fascinating bit of trivia! How could you make the control panel more complex? We have to aim the cursor, with a trackball - ok.. And you have to shoot missiles from bases with 3 buttons, ok! What else is there? Control detonation time and delay? Control missile direction and speed? Recall or reassign missiles to different targets?

[Trinity]

Just scored 76355 game one level b.

What is the highest score ever i wonder? 2600 of course.

[opeygon]

According to Twin Galaxies the world record for Missile Command game one level B on the 2600 is 127,445 by Rodrigo on 11/22/04.

Your pretty close Trinity! Go for it!!!

[Keatah]

That's it? 127k?? I got like 85k on my first try..!

[opeygon]

When I was a kid in the '80s I used to name the cities after major U.S. cities. This made the game a bit more exciting.

Kind of off topic, but has anyone seen the documentary "High Score"? It's about a guys quest to break the Missile Command arcade high score. Excellent movie!

[Keatah]

opeygon, on Fri Jan 6, 2012 8:58 AM, said:

When I was a kid in the '80s I used to name the cities after major U.S. cities. This made the game a bit more exciting.

Kind of off topic, but has anyone seen the documentary "High Score"? It's about a guys quest to break the Missile Command arcade high score. Excellent movie!

I saw it. It is rather slow-moving..
And now I scored 203,680, thereby breaking the twin galaxies record. I got bored and turned the damned thing off.