Lunar Lander
The original Lunar Lander game was a 1969 text-based game called Lunar, or alternately the Lunar Landing Game. Lunar Lander was originally written as a text-based computer game in the FOCAL programming…
Lunar Lander is a simulator developed by Jim Storer, released 30 September 1969 on PDP-8.
What Lunar Lander is
Lunar Lander is a simulator game developed by Jim Storer and released in 1969. It is available on PDP-8 only. It runs on FOCAL.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The original Lunar Lander game was a 1969 text-based game called Lunar, or alternately the Lunar Landing Game. Lunar Lander was originally written as a text-based computer game in the FOCAL programming language for the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-8 computer by Jim Storer while a student at Lexington High School (Massachusetts) in the autumn of 1969. Storer submitted the game to the DEC users' newsletter, which distributed the source code to readers. Other versions of the concept were written soon after: a version called Rocket was written in BASIC by Eric Peters at DEC, and a third version, LEM, was written by William Labaree II in BASIC, among others. A full game of Rocket, one…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are historical and non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Lunar Lander holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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