Lightly used game. Works on the original Atari 7800. This is a prototype game and only 85% complete.
The game takes place in 1972 during the Vietnam War, inside a prisoner-of-war camp. You play as Colonel James Braddock, an American POW tasked with breaking out of captivity, rescuing fellow prisoners, liberating the U.S. embassy, and defeating a ruthless drug lord. It sounds like an overwhelming challenge, but it’s exactly the kind of mission suited for Chuck Norris.
Gameplay follows a traditional side-scrolling beat-’em-up style, similar to many titles that became popular in the late 1980s. When no enemies are nearby, the character is in Normal Mode. In this state, moving left or right walks your character, pressing down makes him crouch, and either button triggers a jump in the direction he’s facing. Holding down-left or down-right while pressing the fire button performs a longer leap.
Once an enemy approaches, the game switches to Combat Mode. Movement to the left and right still works the same, but pressing down now causes your character to duck, and pressing up results in a vertical jump. The left fire button performs a kick, while the right button throws a punch. If you’ve picked up a machine gun, you can fire it by walking toward an enemy and pressing either button.
The game also includes two hidden options. The left difficulty switch toggles invincibility (left for normal play, right for invincible), while the right difficulty switch activates a level select feature, though only when starting a new game. This level select is particularly useful because two stages cannot be completed through normal gameplay.
Although Missing in Action might have been considered average on systems like the NES or Sega Master System, it stands out more on the Atari 7800. The platform had very few side-scrolling action titles, so a game with solid graphics and gameplay would have filled an important gap. Despite this unreleased prototype being nearly finished — around 85% according to the programmer — it appears the Atari 7800 market was not strong enough at the time for TNT to move forward with a release.
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