A game called Lunar Lander was along with Asteroids, one of Atari´s first games which got copyrighted and very successful.
but we orginally have to thank a 17 year old nerd (Jim Store) ,
who coded the game first in 1969 as a text based version called Lunar Landing Game” in the programming language FOCAL
during the following years, it was re-coded in machine language for a Display Type of the DEC Machines and found its way 1979 to Atari and was 1980 copyrighted by them.
In the game your goal is to land a lunar landing modul on a pad using thrust forth and back, take care of the fuel and additional be careful not to hit mountains.
the whole game is displayed in vector graphics, like the version of Atari was
http://oyster.ignimgs.com/static/social/img/atari/LunarLander.swf
I had this game way back when, too bad it collecting dust now in my basement.
Asteroids was fantastic but I could never be very good at Moon Lander – I did like it, just wasn’t any good at it.
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