Lunar Lander cover

Lunar Lander 1979

Released
August 1979
Genres
Simulator · Strategy · Arcade
Platforms
Arcade · Atari 8-bit · Windows Phone · TRS-80
Developer
Atari
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Is it still worth playing?

Two rotation buttons, a big thrust handle and a shrinking fuel gauge are all you get to set a lander down on the Moon in this 1979 arcade game, Atari's first with vector graphics. Flat landing spots carry bonus multipliers that grow as the area shrinks, and the view zooms in near the surface, which made it the first game with multiple perspectives. A crash scores little, and every round starts over with new terrain until the fuel is gone. Coins buy more fuel. The idea goes back to a 1969 text game, and later lander games mostly follow this version. Landing gently while the fuel runs out is a simple idea that is still tense today.

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