'Missile Command: The Movie' and 5 More Potential Atari 2600 Films

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Technically ‘Missile Command’ was an arcade game before there was ever a home version, but for the sake of this article we’ll just pretend it was the other way around. But yes, Fox is making a movie out of 'Missile Command" – and Universal is making a movieout of ‘Asteroids.’ We can only assume that Paramount and Sony are duking it out for 'Space Invaders.’

With the news that Atari’s ‘Missile Command’ will (finally!) be made into a feature film, we thought it would be slightly fun to pose a few more ideas based on the popular console game from the 1980s. Heck, if you can make a movie out of the image above, then you can absolutely make a flick out of…

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