Weird Stuff: Atari Trak Ball and Missile Command

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Missile Command (1980)
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This is a strange item. Not that a Trak Ball for an 8 bit computer is particularly strange per se, but there was only ONE game released that supports the Trak Ball: Missile Command.
Why the hell wasn't this supported by more games?
There were quite a few arcade games with trak ball control in the arcade that got ported to the Atari 8 bit. Even by Atari themselves and none of them supports the trak ball...

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