Referenced By / Attack from Mars

• Spider-Man (Stern) has Sandman's center bank of three targets, which Word of God confirms is a reference to this game.
• Medieval Madness:
  "You fools! I told you to use the atomic blaster!"
  • The livestock quote is used as well (as a random response from one of the peasants).
• The "Saucer Attack" mode can appear in the Time Machine mode of Junk Yard, and it retains its cow-based Easter Egg.
• The Match Sequence of Scared Stiff can prompt a quote from this game, among others.
• One of the judges in Cirqus Voltaire's bonus count is a Martian from this game named Marvin. (He's incredibly hard to please.)
• Stranger Things, which was made by Brian Eddy over 20 years later, is a Spiritual Successor that directly references the game in two different ways:
  • The extra ball animation depicts the Demogorgon getting clocked by a pinball in the same manner as the equivalent animation from Attack from Mars.
  • Likewise, "Total Isolation" takes after "Total Annihilation" in both name, qualifications (completing all the lights on the ramps and orbits), and rules.