August 1979 · Game
Lunar Lander (Atari) (1979)
Atari's first vector game, released in August 1979. It is the first game with multiple perspectives, zooming as the lander nears the surface.
Atari built a vector graphics engine after Cinematronics' Space Wars, and Wendi Allen proposed a Lunar Lander game.
See 1979 in the interactive timeline
Facts
- Date
- August 1979
- Kind
- Game: Arcade simulation
- Maker or publisher
- Atari
- Platforms
- Arcade
- Genre
- Simulation
- Format
- Arcade
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- Space Wars (Cinematronics) (competitor, 1977)
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