"Lunar Lander games abound on every platform" For sure! I even have a copy on tape somewhere for the Burroughs L series machines, but unfortunately I'm not aware of any of those still working; there was an L7xxx and also an L5xxx and L9xxx, but AFAIK they're display only.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 4:07 PM John Robertson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 2024/06/17 12:26 p.m., Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 1:53 PM Mike Katz via cctalk > > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> I remember running this program at school in the mid 1970's. > >> > >> This runs on 4K Focal '69 without the extended functions enabled. So it > >> should run on a 4K PDP-8/L. > >> > >> ... > >> > >> It was available as FOCAL8-81 from DECUS (Submitted 20-Jan-1970): > > https://svn.so-much-stuff.com/svn/trunk/pdp8/src/decus/focal8-81/ > > > > I have run this at VCF on a 4K PDP-8. > > > > -ethan > > Fascinating - and there was a video game made by Atari called Lunar > Lander which also tried to put a LEM safely on the surface. > > Some more of the history of the games (from 2009): > > technologizer.com > > Forty Years of Lunar Lander <#> > > Lunar Lander games abound on every platform. Along with Tetris and > Pac-Man, the game--in which your mission is to safely maneuver your > lunar module onto the moon's surface--is one of the most widely cloned > computer games of all time. But did you know that game players began > touching down on the moon in Lunar Lander… > > 🔗 https://technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/index.html > <https://technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/index.html> > > John :-#)# > > > -- > John's Jukes Ltd. > 7 - 3979 Marine Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5J 5E3 > Call (604)872-5757 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) > flippers.com > "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out" >
