{"id":576,"date":"2009-07-20T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/576"},"modified":"2009-07-20T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:52:28","slug":"forty-years-of-lunar-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/576\/forty-years-of-lunar-lander","title":{"rendered":"Forty Years of <em>Lunar Lander<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/07\/19\/lunar-lander\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/freelance\/lunar_splash_small.png\" alt=\"Lunar Lander 40th Anniversary on Technologizer\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forty years ago today, man set foot on the moon <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_11\" target=\"_blank\">for the first time<\/a>.  To celebrate the anniversary, I decided to take a look at the history of that old computer game stalwart, <em>Lunar Lander<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/freelance\/lander_1990_small.png\" alt=\"Lunar Module\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Much to my surprise, I soon discovered that <em>Lunar Lander<\/em> itself turns 40 this year as well: a few months after Armstrong&#8217;s first stroll on the moon,  a high school student named Jim Storer wrote the first version &#8212; all text &#8212; on a DEC PDP-8 computer.  Yep, in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Up today on Technologizer is the world&#8217;s first <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/07\/19\/lunar-lander\/\" target=\"_blank\">in-depth history of <em>Lunar Lander<\/em><\/a>, one of the earliest computer games ever written.  The article tells the story of the first text version, the first graphical version for the DEC GT40, and Atari&#8217;s 1979 arcade game of the same title (now turning 30, interestingly enough) through information from the men who created them.  It then examines notable versions of<em> Lunar Lander<\/em> through the years, bringing us up to the present.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/07\/19\/lunar-lander\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/freelance\/astronaut_small.jpg\" alt=\"Lunar Lander 40th Anniversary\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d especially like to thank Jim Storer, Jack Burness, Howard Delman, and David Ahl for their help in writing my article.  I couldn&#8217;t have done it without them.<\/p>\n<p>So without further ado, <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/07\/19\/lunar-lander\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the history of <em>Lunar Lander<\/em><\/a>.  I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years ago today, man set foot on the moon for the first time. To celebrate the anniversary, I decided to take a look at the history of that old computer game stalwart, Lunar Lander. Much to my surprise, I soon discovered that Lunar Lander itself turns 40 this year as well: a few months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,21,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}