Amico Missile Command vs BigPEmu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Amico Missile Command
This game transforms your mobile device into a console for local multiplayer fun. Use a separate app on other devices as wireless controllers for a classic arcade experience with modern targeting and multiple game modes.
- Wireless controller support via companion app
- Local multiplayer (co-op and competitive)
- Multiple control modes (Touchpad, Mousepad, Trackball)
- Adjustable difficulty settings per player
- Family-friendly gameplay
- No in-app purchases or online strangers
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REQUIRED: one or more additional mobile devices running the free Amico Controller app to act as wireless game controllers over a shared Wi-Fi network. The game itself has no on-screen touch controls. This game is not a typical mobile game. It is part of the Amico Home entertainment system which turns your mobile device into an Amico console! As with most consoles, you control Amico Home with one or more separate game controllers. Most any mobile device can act as an Amico Home wireless controller by running the free Amico Controller app. Each controller device automatically connects to the device running the game, provided all devices are on the same Wi-Fi network. Amico games are designed for you to enjoy a local multiplayer experience with your family and friends of all ages. The free Amico Home app acts as the central hub where you will find all Amico games available for purchase and from which you can launch your Amico games. All Amico games are family-friendly with no in-app purchases and no playing with strangers over the Internet! Please see the Amico Home app page for more information on setting up and playing Amico Home games. MISSILE COMMAND A mysterious attack from space threatens the cities of Earth. Command your surface-to-air missiles to defeat the incoming rain of destruction! This reimagining of the classic game achieves unrivaled smooth targeting with Amico controller touchscreen input. You can also play with multiple players simultaneously in co-op or competitive modes! Special Features Individual players may select from three difficulty settings (even in multiplayer mode) to help balance play. Each player can also choose from three different control modes with customizable settings: • Touchpad – the cursor on the game screen tracks the location of your touch on the touchscreen. • Mousepad – drag on the touchscreen to move your cursor with adjustable acceleration, just like a mouse. • Trackball – drag on the touchscreen to spin a virtual trackball just like in the original classic arcade standup game. Gather your friends and defend humankind!
BigPEmu
This application emulates the Atari Jaguar console, offering high accuracy and performance for its entire retail game library. It provides advanced features like saved states, movie recording, and customizable controller support, enhancing the classic gaming experience.
- Full retail library compatibility
- High performance emulation
- Accurate emulation
- Saved states and movie recording
- Jaguar CD support
- Customizable controller overlays
- Fast forward and rewind
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BigPEmu is the first Atari Jaguar emulator to feature compatibility with the entire retail library, along with excellent performance and a wide variety of unique features: • Fast. The emulator runs the entire Jaguar retail library (with default settings) at full speed on most devices. • Accurate. It's the most accurate Jaguar emulator to-date, although it's still being improved all the time. • Better than hardware. Although the emulator defaults to settings which are catered toward compatibility and accuracy, it's capable of far more. BigPEmu enables you to play lots of Jaguar games at a full 60 frames per second for the first time ever! • Saved states and movies. Everything is completely deterministic, just like real life. That's right, I went there. This means that all "randomness" is also controlled by a preserved seed. BigPEmu can record movies from nothing but controller inputs, and play them back with perfect accuracy. You can even interrupt a movie's playback and start playing yourself at any point. • Jaguar CD support. In addition to supporting the entire retail disc library (along with Memory Track), complete hardware emulation means that the Virtual Light Machine is fully functional. Also featured is a virtual disc system with an audio loopback option, allowing the VLM to be used as a native audio/music visualizer. • Excessive presentation detail. There's native support for the Jaguar Game Drive's MRQ format in the software browser (as well as box art sourced from PNG files), support for global and per-game backgrounds, and even support for controller overlays! Everything about the touch overlay for the iOS port is fully customizable, from appearance to collision boxes. • Extra device support. Featuring emulated device support for analog controllers (both via external bank switching and the ADC), driving controllers, rotary controllers, and Team Tap. For native input devices, the iOS port supports any MFi "Extended Gamepad" type device as well as keyboards through Apple's Game Controller API. • Glorious shaders. The emulator comes equipped with a powerful, fully customizable postprocessing system. The system supports any type of effect you can imagine, from applying smoothing filters to simulating CRT displays. • Per-game profiles. Mapping the Atari Jaguar controller to anything other than a telephone with wings can get a little complicated, so you might want to switch your controller mapping up for different games. You can do that! With per-game profiles, you can automatically load up a new input scheme (or any other emulator setting) each time you load a game. • Time travel. Native fast forwarding and rewinding capability means you can speed forward through time or go back in time whenever you please. • Flexible scripting. BigPEmu features a powerful scripting system. The emulator comes with a variety of scripts to enhance popular Jaguar games in amazing ways, from analog controller support to native-resolution and stereoscopic rendering! • The usual. Enjoy all of the emulator niceties you've come to expect in modern times. Automatic preservation of EEPROM, PAL support, custom boot ROM images, native support for multiple display aspect ratios, resolution scaling, custom display cropping, extremely customizable input, and a whole lot more. BigPEmu and Swinecrafters LLC are in no way affiliated with Atari. The name "Atari" and all associated game console names are the property of their respective owners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: BigPEmu at free against Amico Missile Command's paid. BigPEmu also leads on ratings volume (26 vs 1). Amico Missile Command's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Amico Missile Command costs $9.99 and BigPEmu $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Amico Missile Command against 5.0 for BigPEmu. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BigPEmu has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Amico Missile Command's written reviews are positive against 94% of BigPEmu's.
| Parameter | Amico Missile Command | BigPEmu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $9.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 94.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | +9 |
| Developer | Intellivision | Swinecrafters LLC |
Customer experience
Amico Missile Command
BigPEmu
In-app purchases
Amico Missile Command
No in-app purchases
BigPEmu
No in-app purchases









