{"id":110089,"date":"2020-03-05T17:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/missile-command-recharged-release-date\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:08:39","slug":"missile-command-recharged-announced-to-celebrate-40-years-of-commanding-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/05\/missile-command-recharged-announced-to-celebrate-40-years-of-commanding-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Missile Command: Recharged Announced to Celebrate 40 years of commanding missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <span class=\"author\">By Joe Robinson<\/span> <span class=\"date\">05 Mar 2020<\/span> <\/p>\n<div id=\"content-container\" readability=\"78.122222222222\">\n<p>I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever actually played <em>Missile Command<\/em>, but it\u2019s such an iconic game I\u2019ve definitely heard of it. According to TouchArcade, a version of the classic missile defence game was released in 2008 along with the first wave of mobile apps, and now Atari are bringing it back once again to celebrate the series\u2019 40th birthday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missile Command: Recharged<\/em> is slated to be a free-game supported by ads, with a one-time IAP to unlock everything for free. Notable changes include new special abilities and power-ups, a progression system, leaderboards and new retro art-style. It\u2019s being developed by the team at Nickervision. There\u2019s even an AR feature.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"leftAlone\" title src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/missile-command-recharged-announced-to-celebrate-40-years-of-commanding-missiles.gif\" alt=\"missle command recharged\" width=\"706\" height=\"350\"><\/p>\n<p>(<em>GIF courtesy of TouchArcade<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Pre-orders are already live on both <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/missile-command-recharged\/id1494023721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.atari.mobile.missilecommandmc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>. A \u2018Spring\u2019 release date has been mentioned, but it\u2019s worth noting that the App Store has a release date of <strong>March 26th<\/strong> listed, so we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Robinson 05 Mar 2020 I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever actually played Missile Command, but it\u2019s such an iconic game I\u2019ve definitely heard of it. According to TouchArcade, a version of the classic missile defence game was released in 2008 along with the first wave of mobile apps, and now Atari are bringing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}