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  2. Jun 15, 2024 · Lunar Lander is Atari's first vector game, released in 1979. it uses a Motorola M6502 microprocessor running at 1.512 MHz with discrete components for audio.

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  3. Atari's first vector game. The player pilots a lunar landing module, trying to guide it to an appropriate landing site and set it down gently so it doesn't disintegrate on impact.

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  4. Mode (s) Single-player. Arcade system. Atari 6502 Vector. Lunar Lander is a single-player arcade game in the Lunar Lander subgenre. It was developed by Atari, Inc. and released in August 1979. It was the most popular version to date of the "Lunar Lander" concept, surpassing the prior Moonlander (1973) and numerous text-based games, and most ...

  5. Jan 19, 2018 · As Atari’s first full colour vector game, Tempest not only broke new technical ground, reinforcing Atari’s position at the top of the arcade development scene, but also threw something completely new at the playing public. This week, I wanted to take a more detailed look at how the game was made.

  6. Aug 5, 2011 · Rival developer Atari recognized the potential of vector technology and joined the fray in 1979 with Lunar Lander, a vector arcade game. Between then and 1985, Atari developed numerous iconic vector games.

  7. Jul 8, 2016 · A major leap forward came with the release of Tempest in 1981 – Atari’s first colour vector game on it’s new “Quadrascan Color” vector monitor. Capable of displaying multiple vivid colours on screen, Dave Theurer’s masterpiece heralded a new era of full colour vector displays and was a huge success.

  8. Jun 6, 2021 · The game idea far precedes Atari's version: just a few months after the Eagle has landed a decade earlier in 1969 on the Sea of Tranquility the very first, text-only version programmed by Jim Storer was running on a PDP-8.

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