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Atari is back at Netflix with a new offering. Released quietly over the last couple of days, Missile Command: Recharged has joined Netflix’s 11 other cloud game offerings, bringing the total to 12.
To date, this is the third “Recharged” game to join Netflix from the Atari library, following the initial two offerings back in late November 2024, when Caverns of Mars: Recharged and Centipede: Recharged joined the service.
For those unfamiliar with the Recharged banner, it’s essentially modern variations of classic arcade games released in the 1970s or 1980s. In this instance, it’s modernizing the classic Dave Theurer shoot-’em-up game, which is also behind the classic Tempest game, first released in 1979. This offering was first released back in March 2020 and was actually the first recharged offering. Later in 2020, the game was released on Nintendo Switch and Steam. The latter version is the one that has been added to Netflix.
The description for the game, which has both single-player and local multiplayer modes, reads as follows: “Blast missiles out of the sky to keep cities safe in this update of a classic Atari arcade game. How long can you withstand the attack from above?”
If you’re unfamiliar with Netflix’s Cloud offerings, you can access Netflix’s library of cloud games through the web or on a connected device, and from there, you’re able to connect a game controller, which for most will be their phone. Unlike the other two Atari additions, this one does not support keyboard and mouse controls.
Atari is the publisher behind the game, with development handled by Digital Eclipse and SneakyBox.
The service still remains in Beta and has not yet rolled out to everyone. According to the latest update to the Netflix Help page, the “beta experience is available to a subset of members in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico, France, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Finland, Germany, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.”
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