Flash Games: Lunar Lander and MoonLander3D
July 25, 2009One of my favorite arcade games as a kid was Lunar Lander. I remember there was one at the arcade in Chesterfield Mall in St. Louis County, and I would try to play it every time I was there. The vector-based game about landing on the moon was not only appealing to me because I am a big space nut (still am), but it had a thrust lever for a controller. How cool is that! If I had to pick my top 5 arcade games, this would be one of them. (The others, for the record: Gauntlet, Joust, Star Wars sit-down cabinet, and Zaxxon. Wow… picking just 5 is hard!!)
Seb Lee-Delisle has created a very accurate Flash version of this arcade classic. You can play is here on his site.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, he also updated and released a 3D version of Lunar Lander called MoonLander3D.
Play MoonLander3D here, and see what you think compared to the original.
