{"id":498,"date":"2025-05-17T22:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-05-17T22:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:43:04","slug":"lunar-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You are in command of a lunar landing module trying to make a safe landing on the moon, but boy, are some of those landing pads in strange places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-28.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-499\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my earliest games, written as I was both fascinated by the arcade version of the game, one of the 1st real arcade machines I ever played, and also due to the application of gravity and momentum in a game.\u00a0I even made a version of Lunar Lander for a Casio Calculator at an early stage, completely text-based, that got you to allocate the amount of fuel to burn as you descended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This version has one landing pad per stage, with quite a few stages, all stored as a sequence of line points, including the position of the landing pad.&nbsp;Once you reach the end of all the stages, you go around again, but with higher gravity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tony-cruise\/ElectricAdventuresArchive\/blob\/main\/MSX\/LUNARLAN.BAS\">Download<\/a> the MSX version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see a video on the game here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Electric Adventures, The Games - Lunar Lander\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qT59pHbPYoU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are in command of a lunar landing module trying to make a safe landing on the moon, but boy, are some of those landing pads in strange places. One of my earliest games, written as I was both fascinated by the arcade version of the game, one of the 1st real arcade machines I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legacy-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}