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Lunar Lander is a genre of video games loosely based on the 1969 landing of the Apollo Lunar Module on the Moon.In Lunar Lander games, players control a spacecraft as it falls toward the surface of the Moon or other astronomical body, using thrusters to slow the ship's descent and control its horizontal motion to reach a safe landing area.
Lunar Lander is a single-player game in the Lunar Lander subgenre in which the player attempts to land a lunar landing module on the Moon. The game is displayed using black and white vector graphics and depicts a side-on view of the terrain and the landing module. At the top of the screen, the player is given information on the module's speed ...
Lunar Lander is a game in which the player must land a ship on the Moon, in the style of other Lunar Lander games. [1] This game was part of a series of arcade game clones for the TRS-80 and Atari 8-bit computers. Though not exactly the same as the Atari, Inc. version of Lunar Lander, it was advertised as "an arcade game simulation". [2] [3]
Lunar Rescue is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game in the Lunar Lander genre. It was developed by Practical Computer Applications and released for the Macintosh in 1988 by XOR Corporation. The game was written by Richard Nygord with art and animations by Mike Saenz.
Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete was first released on July 23, 1998, in Japan for the Sega Saturn. The game is a remake of Eternal Blue with an expanded scenario and improved graphics and sound, much like Silver Star Story Complete before it. A PlayStation version followed on May 27, 1999, with an English release by Working Designs arriving a year ...
Tokyo-based ispace planned to land a robotic lunar lander on the Moon as part of the Hakuto-R Mission 1
Atari had been in the process of manufacturing another vector game, Lunar Lander, but demand for Asteroids was so high "that several hundred Asteroids games were shipped in Lunar Lander cabinets". [23] Asteroids was so popular that some video arcade operators had to install large boxes to hold the number of coins spent by players. [15]
The four-legged lander includes landing rockets, propellant tanks, solar panels, computers and a robotic arm equipped with a scoop to collect lunar samples, as well as a suite of instruments to ...