Coin-Op Games 1979 - Lunar Lander (Atari) [MAME]

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This is a review of arcade coin-operated games year-by-year: "Lunar Lander" was released by Atari in 1979. The video game review footage was emulated on MAME.

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Gaming

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• MAME
• Lunar
• Lander
• arcade
• video
• game
• review
• atari
• vector
• graphics
• coin-op
• coin
• operated
• moon

[BiffsGamingVideos]

This is a re-post. Vector graphics games always look dark unless I do something special to boost up the brightness on the graphics and not the background.

[shock25sr]

Have you ever pulled the MCdonalds landing?

I tryed it on mame with cheats and all and still, it never happened :) ! This game is AWESOME! The "zoom in" feature was way ahead of it`s time and vector graphics just look amazing with this sort of gameplay! Someone should make a vector game just for nostalgia reasons!

Thanks for posting!

Cheers!

[BiffsGamingVideos]

@shock25sr Nope.

[BiffsGamingVideos]

What's your favorite MONOCHROME vector graphics game? Asteroids? Battlezone? Red Baron? Lunar Lander?????

[turfguy87]

yeah this game pissed me off; how the hell were you ever supposed to land more than twice with no fuel replenishment.... way to go atari

[rdellar]

Can't believe how many quarters I wasted

[ToxikAssault]

I used to play this game a lot when I was a kid! Good simple times!

[wildsmiley]

I don't want to sound like spam, but you can play this on Facebook.

[TwinCityKillaz]

Check out a game called 1985 for the Commodore 64...same game but with different planet levels and a bit better graphics

[gillianorley]

@BiffsGamingVideos Red Baron. Partly because of the game itself but also because of the sit-down version of the cabinet. You sat in an enclosed cabinet with a big screen and a control-stick between your legs. Quite unusual at the time.

I also loved Lunar Lander, but it was hard to find and harder to beat.

[jazzx251]

I found the best tactic was to use ABORT!

You send your ship towards one of the 5X pads - complete free-fall

Then as you go over, you hit ABORT - the ship automatically rights itself and descends vertically to the target (after being pushed up a bit). If you've done it right, you'll need very minimal adjustment (and fuel) to do the landing.

[crashpro3]

Wow, for those types of physics in 1979, that's really innovative.

[dattomcat89]

For anybody who finds this interesting and owns a PS3, I suggest you check out Gravity Crash. It's the classic "Wire frame ship has to fight gravity and physics while running out of fuel" style of game, but it's got enemies, [pretty decent] techno music, and vibrant colors as well.

[TheUnbiasedGamer]

Ugh this game would drive me nuts.