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Miss It!

Miss It is a homebrew Atari 2600 game developed by Alan W. Smith and initially released online in 2009. The game went on to receive a limited cartridge release through Good Deal Games in 2011. Miss It was…

23 June 2009

Miss It! is an arcade developed by Alan W. Smith, released 23 June 2009 on Atari 2600 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Miss It! is

Miss It! is an arcade game developed by Alan W. Smith and released in 2009. It was published by Atari. It is available on Atari 2600 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Miss It is a homebrew Atari 2600 game developed by Alan W. Smith and initially released online in 2009. The game went on to receive a limited cartridge release through Good Deal Games in 2011. Miss It was later included in the Atari Flashback series of plug-and-play consoles, starting with the Atari Flashback 5 in 2014, and most recently in the Atari Flashback X Deluxe in 2019. In Miss It, the player must move a black square to avoid touching colorful squares that bounce around the screen, the number of which increases over time. The longer the player manages to avoid contact, the higher the score they achieve. The left difficulty switch can toggle the functionality of the score counter…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Miss It! launched on 23 June 2009, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine and The Sims 3.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, Trine Enchanted Edition, Trine, The Sims 3.

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When did Miss It! come out?
Miss It! was released on 23 June 2009 for Atari 2600 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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