Missile Command was also the first of its kind to make use of a pointing device, a trackball, enabling players to use a crosshair. In the game, players could obstruct incoming missiles, and there were multiple attack paths in each attack wave. The 1980 game Missile Command changed that by introducing a strategy element. The game featured shields which could be used to strategically, to obstruct enemy attacks on the player and assist the player to defend their territory, though not specifically to protect the territory. The object of the arcade game Space Invaders released in 1978 was to defend the player's territory (represented by the bottom of the screen) against waves of incoming enemies. The tower defense genre can trace its lineage back to the golden age of arcade video games in the 1980s. Missile Command (1980) (running on the Atari 5200) was the first popular game to include the key elements of tower defense strategy History Precursors File:A5200 Missile Command.png Tower defense, according to Clements, "plays off of our need for security, ownership, and a desire to protect the people closest to us" arising from a need to create intrinsic value through "ownership over things", "personal space" and to "repel our fears and insecurities". Ryan Clements of IGN attributes the popularity of such games to psychology and human vulnerability. Strategic choice and positioning of defensive elements is an essential strategy of the genre.
Tower defense is seen as a subgenre of real-time strategy video games, due to its real-time origins, though many modern tower defense games include aspects of turn-based strategy.
This typically means building a variety of different structures that serve to automatically block, impede, attack or destroy enemies.
Tower defense ( TD) is a subgenre of strategy video game where the goal is to defend a player's territories or possessions by obstructing the enemy attackers, usually achieved by placing defensive structures on or along their path of attack.
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