Developer : Atari
Genre : Thrust-based
Graphics : Vector graphics
1-bit Graphics
Release Info : MiSTer implementation
Other Tags : MOS Technology 6502
not completed.
In 1979, Atari released this arcade game, where you must carefully guide a landing module to the lunar surface. This was Atari's first vector game, and was a graphical version of a type of game that was quite common in the 1970s, with various text-based mainframe and home computer games having been written all the way back to 1969. It was the predecessor of a lot of real-time space games with gravity, such as Gravitar (Arcade 1982), Zarathrusta (Amiga 1991), and Sub-Terrania (Genesis 1993). The Lunar Lander arcade hardware was reused for Asteroids, which was released a couple of months later. It was based on a MOS 6502 CPU from 1975, also used in home computers such as the Atari 8-bit, the Apple II, and the Commodore 64.
The world's most authentic video simulation of outer space action
SCORES
Scores - MAME: 475 ............. on 2016-01-18 270 ............. on 2016-01-18
Log entries
- 6185Got the score 270 in MAME.
- 6187I played a version of Lunar Lander as a kid, but can't remember which system it was on. Possibly on a Regnecentralen Piccoline.
- 6188Got the score 475 in MAME.
- 9640Recorded a '40 Years Ago' video with Lunar Lander, and got the score 625 without using extra credits.
2016-01-18
2019-04-27
40 Years Ago: Lunar Lander