Lunar Lander Twin Galaxies World Record MAME 2,020

[theelusiveone]

Excellent video/game and awesome playing.

[slowpig7]

There is nothing like playing Lunar Lander on the original arcade machine with the analog throttle.....i go to Cal-extreme every year just for it!

[itetcboo]

@slowpig7 I agree 100%. I wish I had a LL game. I did recently acquire a Q*bert though which sits nicely next to my Centipede and my Joust and my Super Pac-Man. Unfortunately LL's are far and few. I have played on a near mint one about 2 years ago. Thats what got me so hooked on this game. If only I could get in front of a real LL machine for a few hours with a cam. I know I could beat the current arcade record of 1,525. Oh well maybe someday...

[FreezeCrackerFun]

7:07 fucking owned

[bertiejr]

i never play this game, but,,,are you getting bonus fuel? on the landing at 379, you went down to about 250, and when the landing was complete you had 302. i noticed this on the next level when you went from double digits back up to >100.

just wondering

[itetcboo]

On Lunar Lander when you make a perfect landing (less than 15fps descending speed) you are awarded a bonus of 50 additional units of fuel. If you do not make a perfect landing you get no extra fuel and if you crash it takes away some fuel units. It truly is at first glance a very simplistic game but as with many older classics there is more than what meets the eye as far as strategy goes.

[Pacfan98]

I have this on my GBA. And it's fun!

[IWannabeJew]

This game was bloody hard for a kid.

[turfguy87]

you ain't kiddin! I would always run out of fuel- it always drifted the wrong way too-this guy makes it look easymost I ever got was 2 or 3 landings

[tnpshow]

Very nice work - this game has always fascinated me, but to be honest I've never given it a good try. How are your controls set up in MAME? What hardware are you using for this?

[itetcboo]

Thanks, My controls are set up so that the left and right key on the keyboard control clockwise and anticlockwise rotation and then the up key is the throttle. Thats basically it although you could set up the abort mission key (takes up to much fuel so I never use it) and then you can also set up a key to change to the tougher missions as well but then that might get you going to fast that it takes a lot of fuel to slow down if not done just right.

[tnpshow]

oh ok so no special MAME control panel then. Was the original Atari LL throttle control analog or just a switch?

[itetcboo]

The original which is awesome BTW is a throttle that is analog. So with just using the keyboard its either full on or you can feather it by tapping it fast or slow. A analog throttle would be better and some fancier joysticks have a throttle. I do have a pretty sweet 4 way only joystick for Pac-Man like games though that I built and I also have a x-Arcade tracball which works well for games like missile command ect. I wish I had a lunar lander arcade machine but they are pretty rare.

[ryazzy]

I read on another forum that you TOTALLY called out Donald Hayes to see if he could even come close to beating you on this. Lets hope we see some Lunar Lander Competition on this.

[ryazzy]

Not sure if this is real. I might have to have Twin Galaxies come and inspect your mame machine to see if it has the right kind of gooey substance on the motherboard. (King of Kong reference...)

Good job!!