MixedGeek.comRubens had covered this topic before, in his 2013 Polygon article \'The Creation of Missile Command and the Haunting of its Creator Dave Theurer\'. That was a great article at the time and when 8-Bit Apocalypse goes over similar material it’s similarly great. But in turning the article into the book, Rubens doesn’t just flesh out his main Theurer/Missile Command narrative but also goes on a series of semi-related tangents. ... you do get the sense that some padding was needed to turn what was a really tight article into an entire book. The writing also occasionally has the almost defensively celebratory and hyperbolic tone that plagues a lot of industry insider games writing.