All Things Old Will Be Made New Again, Especially Missile Command

May 14, 2008

It wouldn't be of much note to post a video of Missile Command played on a wall-sized screen. Large video screens ceased being much of a marvel sometime shortly after the advent of the pixelate-everything Jumbotron in the 1980s. What is worth noting is when said wall-sized screen is a massive multi-touch surface that asks players to sweep their hands across the playing field in order to stop threads of retro nuclear warheads from destroying their cities.

We're sorry to see the venerable trackball supplanted, but this "hands on" approach to stemming the tide of nuclear armageddon looks like too much fun not to share.

[via The Bits, Bytes, Pixels, Sprites]