Lunar Lander Twin Galaxies World Record MAME 2,020

The official Twin Galaxies world record for this game on the actual arcade hardware is 1525 (this is the same game but played via MAME on the computer). I have been playing the game like mad lately and have surpassed that score with a whopping 2,020 points. This same playback has been certified and verified via Twin Galaxies as a world record. I have not heard of anyone who can prove it getting any higher on a single credit if you have let me know or tell them to send it to Twin Galaxies as I would love someone to beat my score so that I can try to beat it back all in good fun. I thought that since there was not much lunar lander vids on youtube that someone might find it interesting. Things really came together for me on this recording. If you are not familiar with this game its all about fuel conservation and gravity and coming out of orbital speed and using all of these things to land as often as possible and in the most difficult landing spots which yield the highest points as many times as possible. I had previously thought that 2,000 points was the holy grail of this game but if you notice on the last landing (not the crash at the very end) I ran out of fuel at the exact moment that I landed and 15fps is the max landing speed you can land at. If I would have landed at 16fps I would have bounced and only received 75 points and the game would have been over at a still really good 1825. Lunar Lander is a very addictive very fun and challenging game. Hope you enjoy the vid. :)

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• Lunar
• Lander
• MAME
• Atari
• Twin
• Galaxies
• World
• Record
• vector
• graphics
• Coin-Op
• arcade

[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...

[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.

[theelusiveone]

Excellent video/game and awesome playing.

[FreezeCrackerFun]

7:07 fucking owned

[Pacfan98]

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

[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

[IWannabeJew]

This game was bloody hard for a kid.

[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.