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Moonlander was created as a demo program for the GT40 display terminal by Jack Burness in 1973. It is an adaptation of earlier text games involving the landing of a craft on the surface of the moon, initially inspired by the Apollo 11 moon landing. Transferred into a graphical realm on the GT40, Moonlander is notable for several gameplay innovations including touch screen gameplay via use of a light pen, separate zoomed out and zoomed in world screens, and an early instance of an authorial Easter Egg in computer software.

Photos on Location

Moonlander being played at the National Computer Conference and Exposition. (1973)
Creator Jack Burness plays Moonlander. (1970s)
Player of Lunar Lander at a medical university. (1978)
Lunar Lander played on a GT40. (1978)
Man demonstrating Lunar Lander. (1973)
GT-40 terminal playing Lunar Lander. (1976)

Histories

https://www.acriticalhit.com/moonlander-one-giant-leap-for-game-design/ — Moonlander: One Giant Leap for Game Design by Kate Willaert.
https://www.technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/ — Forty Years of Lunar Lander by Benj Edwards.

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-''Moonlander'' was created as a demo program for the GT40 display terminal.
+''Moonlander'' was created as a demo program for the GT40 display terminal by Jack Burness in 1973. It is an adaptation of earlier text games involving the landing of a craft on the surface of the moon, initially inspired by the Apollo 11 moon landing. Transferred into a graphical realm on the GT40, ''Moonlander'' is notable for several gameplay innovations including touch screen gameplay via use of a light pen, separate zoomed out and zoomed in world screens, and an early instance of an authorial Easter Egg in computer software.
 == Photos on Location ==