40 Years Of Lunar Lander

[T_M_C]

Whilst browsing Kevin Picone's Underware Design site i saw this cool link.

A retrospective look at the vector game Lunar Lander.

http://technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/

I remember playing this in the arcades in the 80's and on virtually every computer i've owned.

I even started to write a 3d version some years ago.

A classic.

TMC

[fog]

Blimey 40 years.  I still think of video games as quite a modern partly because it is still evolving and has so much more still to learn, expand and innovate beyond other forms of media.

Strange to think too that Lunar Lander still forms the basis for quite a lot of games, especially in mobile gaming boom.

[TheKhakinator]

Read a report from the 70s about Spacewar. Real interesting how for the CS researchers at the time, it was a huge thing.

[T_M_C]

Right.

I've read several accounts of what was the first video game in Retro Gamer magazine.

One account was a guy who created pong on an oscilloscope purely through electronics.  

Spacewar being another example which i think was one of the earliest programmed games.

These were in the early 1960's, and i was born in 68, so you could say i was born in the same decade as computer games.  

Thats quite incredible to think about really.

I've grown up with computer games and the computer games industry.

I wonder what the next 40 years will bring. Assuming we're all still around by then.

TMC

[fog]

I've read several accounts of what was the first video game in Retro Gamer magazine.

One account was a guy who created pong on an oscilloscope purely through electronics.   

Spacewar being another example which i think was one of the earliest programmed games.

The true first video game probably depends on your definition of what makes one.  I bet there was an interactive electronic device of some kind before Spacewar, Pong etc.

I wonder what the next 40 years will bring. Assuming we're all still around by then.

Well I'm just a couple of years younger than you and the stuff we have already is way beyond anything I dreamt of or science programmes predicted back when I was a kid.  Based on that, think of the most amazing, magical thing you can and be prepared to be amazed.

It's one of the few benefits of getting old