Is Missile Command 3D on Steam?

No. Missile Command 3D is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Missile Command 3D on?

Missile Command 3D is available on Atari Jaguar.

When did Missile Command 3D release?

Missile Command 3D was first released on December 31, 1995.

Missile Command 3D

Dec 31, 1995ShooterAtari Jaguar

Missile Command 3D — frequently asked questions

Is Missile Command 3D on Steam?: No. Missile Command 3D is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Missile Command 3D on?: Missile Command 3D is available on Atari Jaguar.
When did Missile Command 3D release?: Missile Command 3D was first released on December 31, 1995.

About Missile Command 3D

Missile Command 3D is an update to the classic Atari arcade game. The goal in Missile Command is to defend your cities against an onslaught of missiles coming from the sky. Your arsenal consists of three anti-missile flak cannons. You have to position the anti-missile clouds in the path of the incoming missiles to stop them from impacting. This Jaguar game has 3 modes. First, there is a port of the original arcade game. There are neat extras for this mode like graphic backdrops and the ability to resize or scale the screen. The second mode is Missile Command 3D. This mode retains the gameplay of the original, but adds 3D graphics to the mix. The final mode, Virtual Missile Command, changes things up quite a lot. Instead of anti-missile flak, your cannons shoot lasers. This means you don't need to lead your targets anymore. You play the game from a first-person perspective, and must switch between the three cannons via buttons on the keypad. There are nine levels in this mode, each with a boss at the end.

Summary via IGDB.

Missile Command 3D on Wikipedia

Missile Command 3D is a 1995 shoot 'em up video game developed by Virtuality Entertainment and published for the Atari Jaguar. As part of Atari's 2000 series of arcade game revivals, it is an update of Dave Theurer's arcade game Missile Command (1980). The game has the player defend six cities from incoming missiles by launching anti-ballistic missiles.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Atari Jaguar
Developer: Virtuality Entertainment
Publisher: Atari Corporation
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action, Science fiction, Warfare

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Atari Jaguar · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-07-24

Loose

$90

Complete

$138

Sealed

$181

Region: NA+EU
Released: 1995
Authenticity: Low

On Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration — the cartridge is now a collectibleLow counterfeit risk

Atari Jaguar prices, all games & how to spot a fake

The only game for a VR headset that was cancelled before it ever existed — lead the listing with that.

Atari contracted Virtuality — then the biggest name in commercial VR — to build a Jaguar headset, with this as the showcase title. The headset was cancelled over health concerns; the game shipped December 1995 with its Virtual mode intact and nothing to plug it into. That gives the Jaguar two separately cancelled peripherals, each with exactly one supporting retail game (the Voice Modem has Ultra Vortek). No other console has this.

The game itself updates Dave Theurer's 1980 arcade classic — the same designer whose Tempest became the Jaguar's best game — in three modes, and contemporary reviewers most often singled out the headset-designed Virtual mode as the best of them.

How it was made

Virtuality Entertainment developed the Atari Jaguar version, published by Atari Corporation. Credited: designed by James Tripp, Mark Brown, Martin Brownlow, Robert Powers, Scot Jones; programmed by Martin Brownlow; art by Mark Brown, Scot Jones; music by Dale Robins.

What the press said at the time

Computer and Video Games	#174, May 1996	3/5
GamePro	#82, March 1996	83%
Next Generation	#16, April 1996	2/5
ST Format	#84, July 1996	75%
Atari Fan	#9, January 1997	88/100
Digital Press	#28, January 1996	7/10
Game Zero Magazine	March 1996	27/50
ST-Computer	#113, February 1996	76%
ST Magazine	#102, February 1996	57%
Ultimate Future Games	#18, May 1996	30%
Ultimate Gamer	#5, December 1995	7/10
VideoGames	#84, January 1996	8/10

The contemporary press could not agree on this one: comparable scores run from 30% to 88% across 12 publications. Scores are printed in their original scales.

Cartridge & preservation record

Cartridge ROM capacity 16 megabit (2 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.

Catalogue part number J9097E

Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).

Worth knowing

Announced as Missile Command 2000. It was shown at E3 1995 under the name Missile Command 2000, slated to launch alongside the Jaguar VR headset for Christmas that year. Atari had approached Virtuality about a VR peripheral as early as 1993; the partnership was finally announced in 1995. Electronic Gaming Monthly reported the terms that June: Atari would help fund two virtual-reality titles, Virtuality would build the VR code and operating-system software for Atari and its third parties to use, and Virtuality would take a royalty on every copy sold. Only this one ever shipped with official support, and the headset was cancelled shortly after the game arrived.
The VR mode finally worked in 2023. Twenty-eight years after the headset it was built for was cancelled, programmer Rich Whitehouse implemented VR support for the game in the Jaguar emulator BigPEmu — so Missile Command 3D can now be played in stereoscopic VR on a modern headset. The cancelled peripheral's only game outlived the peripheral by nearly three decades.

Before you buy

Moderately common; the VR story is the listing hook almost nobody mentions. Included in Atari 50. Low counterfeit risk.

Authenticity & condition — Atari Jaguar

Specific to the format this title shipped in

Buying a Jaguar cartridge

Cartridges are the durable half of this library — the risk is provenance, not decay. The platform has an active post-commercial scene, so the question is usually which era a cartridge is from rather than whether it still works.

Ask for a photo of the label edge and the cartridge back. Reproductions are usually printed on adhesive photo stock and sit proud of the label recess.
Donor shells are the common trick: sanding marks on the back, or adhesive ghosting where an older label was lifted, are the strongest signals.
Cartridges are region-free on this platform, so a cheaper PAL copy plays on a North American console — a price difference is not evidence of a fake.