Missile Command - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Missile Command was referenced in the 1980 episode "Call Girl" of the TV sitcom Barney Miller, which featured a young detective who was hooked on the game.
• The award winning documentary High Score follows William Carlton, a Portland, Oregon gamer, on his quest to beat the Missile Command high score record for Marathon settings.(2006)
• In the 2008 episode "Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer" of the NBC show Chuck, a weapons satellite access code is hidden in the (fictitious) kill screen of Missile Command by its programmer. The show's title character retrieves the code by achieving a score of 2,000,000 points after realizing that "the mathematical pattern underlying the game is the same" as Rush's 1981 hit "Tom Sawyer".
• In the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Missile Command's "The End" screen is used to help illustrate the film's ending.
• Missile Command was played by John Connor in the 1991 movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
• Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres gave actor Seth Rogen an arcade version of Missile Command as a wedding gift on her talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.