Play Missile Command Online

Missile Command on the Game Boy was a 1995 release from Mindscape, a portable take on the arcade classic. It arrived when the handheld was full of these direct conversions, a solid black and white version of a game everyone knew. You got exactly what you expected, no more and no less.

You control three anti-missile bases at the bottom of the screen, each with a limited supply of ammunition. Your single goal is to protect six cities from an endless barrage of incoming missiles and other threats. The core mechanics are simple: you move a cursor with the D-pad and press a button to launch a counter-missile that explodes in a small blast radius, intercepting anything caught within it. You must carefully manage your ammo for each base, as they do not replenish until the next stage, and you also defend against smart bombs that can only be stopped by a direct hit and aircraft that fly across the top of the screen. The pacing is relentless, the difficulty steep, with the screen inevitably getting crowded and your cities disappearing one by one. It feels like a tense, losing battle where you are just trying to hold the line for a few more seconds.