Moonlander

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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.

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