Well, as I’m sure you’ve heard, today is the 40th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon. I wasn’t sure what this blog could contribute that everyone else isn’t going to contribute, but I thought I would at least point to one of my favourite lunar landing memories.
What’s that, you say? I’m too young to have watched the moon landing? Why, that’s right. But I do have fond memories of landing on the moon myself — through that old computer game, Lunar Landing. Eventually, it was released as a console by Atari, and there’s an “official” version here. But seeing as how the very original (according to Wikipedia) was written by a high school student on a now-very-obsolete computer, I’m not going to feel too bad pointing you towards a very excellent recreation that you can play right here.
Even better, the programmer, Seb Lee-Delisle, has created a three-dimensional version of Lunar Lander, and specially coded levels in honour of the 40th anniversary.
I’d forgotten just how difficult and unforgiving the game was. It requires patience, I’ll warn you. It’s deceptively simple, and yet requires your rigorous attention.
Have fun!
Grant Hamilton
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