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1972
Author:
Jim Storer
Style:
Resource Management
Language:
FOCAL
Launch Platform:
PDP-8
The genesis of the Lunar Lander genre, this tightly-coded simulation by a high school student dominated early computing labs with its purely numeric gameplay.
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Original 1969 source code
Three variants published in the book Basic Computer Games