- 70/100
- Critics1 review
1969 · Jim Storer · Simulation
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 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.
- Released
- 30 September 1969
- Platforms
- PDP-8
- Genres
- Simulation
- Developers
- Jim Storer
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Text
- Themes
- HistoricalNon-fiction
- Engine
- FOCAL
›Story
Based on real world events of the lunar landing in 1969.
Keywords
- space simulation
- space
- american history
Media
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Remade as
- Lunar Lander RelaunchedMoonlander
- Built on it
- Moonlander
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