Celebrating Man’s Greatest Achievement

With video games, of course!

Lunar Lander, an excellent recreation by Seb Lee-Delisle.  From his blog…

A few years ago, as a tribute to the early pioneers of arcade gaming, I decided to recreate Lunar Lander in Flash, with painstaking attention to detail and accuracy! And what did I do to celebrate this great achievement? Did I shout about it from the rooftops? Did I post it on the internet for everyone to share and enjoy? Did I write a blog post about it? Well actually no, I just sat on it and it’s been laying there burning a hole on my hard drive all this time.

But now you can finally play it! And it is very accurate.  I remember the arcade version of this game, and not very fondly either.  I doubt I ever landed safely (and I never had enough quarters to gain even a little competence).  But now I can play to my hearts content.  I have indeed landed, but always hard and my poor, tiny, vector astronauts are always stranded.  Sigh.  There’s also an Apollo 11 Commemorative Version.