Moonlander

In 1970, the name (Moonlander) was used for an electromechanical arcade game by former employees of Atari, Inc. doing business as Cointronics, in which the player uses a joystick to land a model lunar lander on targets. although it is unclear if the game was inspired by the video games or solely by the actual lunar lander.

Cointronics released an electro-mechanical arcade game called Lunar Lander in January 1970 — coincidentally, the same month ROCKET/APOLLO was submitted to DEC. But where ROCKET/APOLLO ignored movement control in favor of fuel control, Cointronic’s game was all about movement. You used two joysticks to control the X- and Z-axis of a toy-sized lunar module, navigating it to one of several lit-up landing spots while the module automatically lowered. The more spots you landed on within a limited number of tries, the better the grade you were given at the end.

Becoro # 2023-04-05 13:00:05 - source

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Moonlander (DEC PDP-1)