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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[conker rooney]

Wasn't this the training program for the actual moon landings? The arcade version was difficult as the lever was heavily spring-loaded. This made it harder to achieve a steady descent; you could also add more coins if fuel ran low.

[BiffsGamingVideos]

well, sense this was made in 1979 and the moon landings hapened a decade ealier years before atari ever did pong, I would have to say no.

[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]

Nope.

[BiffsGamingVideos]

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

[videowilliams]

Battlezone was awesome, and truly scary when the bad guys got behind you.

[videowilliams]

I really dug it- truly a game of strategy. Make a nice soft landing in a flat place before all your fuel is gone, just like Neil and the rest.

[mrSLIMEguyMC]

Anything

[conker rooney]

I thought this was the original training simulator from the '60s but released as an arcade game over a decade later. The most difficult setting, ie no friction or gravity, would have been accurate for a simulated lunar landing. It would also explain why this game looked basic even for 1979.

[JMChladek]

What about Star Castle? It was technically monocrome since all the designers did was stick a three colored tranparent section on the screen to make the shields of the base appear to be different colors (compared to Tempest and Gravitar, which were true multi-colored vector graphics games).

[paul rogers]

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