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title: "More Missile Madness"
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slug: "more-missile-madness"
url: "http://localhost/article/more-missile-madness/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/more-missile-madness.md"
published_at: "2020-10-27T17:12:45+00:00"
modified_at: "2025-09-24T08:04:09+00:00"
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  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Description: A missile launcher moves up and down on the left side of the screen in the program called Missile Launcher. You fire missiles at ammunition dumps on the right side of the screen. The player gets 25 shots and scores points for hitting the ammunition. Bonus points are scored for destroying an entire ammunition…"
category:
  - name: "Timex Sinclair User"
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    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/timex-sinclair-user/"
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  - name: "1983"
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  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1000"
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publication: "Timex Sinclair User"
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  id: 10278
  title: "Timex Sinclair User"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/timex-sinclair-user/"
volume: "1"
issue: "2"
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  - id: 26867
    title: "Timex Sinclair User n2"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/timex-sinclair-user-n2/"
pages: "9"
pubdate: "July 1983"
product_reviews:
  - id: 13329
    title: "Missile Launcher"
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    url: "http://localhost/product/missile-launcher/"
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volumeissue: "v1n2"
---

Description: A missile launcher moves up and down on the left side of the screen in the program called [Missile Launcher](http://localhost/product/missile-launcher/). You fire missiles at ammunition dumps on the right side of the screen. The player gets 25 shots and scores points for hitting the ammunition. Bonus points are scored for destroying an entire ammunition dump.

Evaluation: Shooting at targets is a popular concept in games but, to be most effective, any such game requires an opposition that shoots back. Missile Launcher, programmed entirely in Basic, is too simple and slow.

The player controls only the firing of missiles. This requires the player to judge when the row of the missile launcher equals the row of an ammunition dump. This 16K game, distributed by [Intercomputer](http://localhost/company/intercomputer/), did not hold the interest of this reviewer for very long, so I played it only a couple of times.

Rating: 5