Raid over Moscow is a 1984 action-strategy game developed by Access Software, released across multiple home platforms including the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and BBC Microcomputer System. Set against a Cold War backdrop, the game casts the player as an American space pilot tasked with intercepting three Soviet nuclear strikes aimed at North America — a mission made necessary by the prior dismantlement of the United States' own nuclear arsenal. Beyond the defensive scramble to neutralize the incoming attacks, the game escalates into an offensive operation requiring the player to fight through enemy resistance and ultimately infiltrate and destroy a nuclear facility concealed within Moscow's Kremlin. The combination of arcade shooting sequences and goal-driven mission structure gives the game a layered quality uncommon in action titles of its era.
