{"id":2872,"date":"2011-05-30T23:34:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T05:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2011-05-30T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T05:34:40","slug":"lunar-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/30\/lunar-lander\/fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian and I were watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062622\/\"><em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em><\/a> just now, and the scene where the ship lands on the Moon reminded me of the old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_Lander_%28arcade_game%29\">Atari Lunar Lander game<\/a> I used to play (and play and play) at the arcades. (strangely, I seem to remember playing the game in my early high school years, but according to the Wikipedia article above, it didn&#8217;t come out until 1979. Hmmm&#8230;) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lunarlander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lunarlander-304x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lunarlander\" width=\"304\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2873\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But after playing the online version on Atari&#8217;s site I wonder why I have such fond memories of it; it&#8217;s not easy. And the games are over pretty quickly. Back in the day you&#8217;d be plugging a quarter in it for every play, and you only start out with enough fuel for one or two landings. Maybe I liked it because I had so much invested in it. Or maybe it&#8217;s just my memory on its way out. <\/p>\n<p>Much easier to enjoy now that there&#8217;s a Flash version online that&#8217;s free to play. And there are lots of other spin-offs from it as well, like <a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulation\/lunar-lander\">this one<\/a> from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Cool stuff. <\/p>\n<p>Any chance I can have my quarters back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian and I were watching 2001: A Space Odyssey just now, and the scene where the ship lands on the Moon reminded me of the old Atari Lunar Lander game I used to play (and play and play) at the arcades. (strangely, I seem to remember playing the game in my early high school years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,12,15],"tags":[364,365,366,367],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-technology","category-fun","category-geek","tag-arcade","tag-atari","tag-lunar-lander","tag-moon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}