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Warheads for Windows

Warheads for Windows is a clone of Atari's popular 1980 arcade game, Missile Command. Originally it was pretty much a straight rip-off of the classic "intercept the falling missles" game, where you had two…

31 December 1991

Warheads for Windows is an arcade developed by WayForward Technologies, released 31 December 1991 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Warheads for Windows is

Warheads for Windows is an arcade game developed by WayForward Technologies and released in 1991. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Warheads for Windows is a clone of Atari's popular 1980 arcade game, Missile Command. Originally it was pretty much a straight rip-off of the classic "intercept the falling missles" game, where you had two missile launchers (instead of three) that you could use to shoot down incoming missiles (the left and right mouse buttons fire from the left and right missile launchers, respectively) to prevent them from destroying six cities below. The missile launchers have a finite number of missiles and can be destroyed by missiles. You earn points for shooting down missiles, nukes and airplanes, and for each city that survives each round, which can earn bonus cities which replace destroyed cities…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Warheads for Windows launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2 and Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.

Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.

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When did Warheads for Windows come out?
Warheads for Windows was released on 31 December 1991 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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