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2024-06-14 21:51:35
2024-06-14 21:51:35
How I Found A 55 Year Old Bug In The First Lunar Lander Game
Just months after Neil Armstrong’s historic moonwalk, Jim Storer,
a Lexington High School student in Massachusetts, wrote the first Lunar Landing game.
By 1973, it had become “by far and away the single most popular computer game.”
A simple text game, you pilot a moon lander, aiming for a gentle touch down on the moon.
All motion is vertical and you decide every 10 simulated seconds how much fuel to bu…