Panelists: Earl Evans (hosting), Paul Hagstrom, Michael Mulhern, and Jack Nutting
Host’s Topic: Lunar landistry
SpaceX successfully blasted off a rocket, which they’ve done before – but this time, the rocket’s stage one came back down and landed itself safely! In celebration of their accomplishment, we wanted to look back on the game Lunar Lander, and its various incarnations.
Retro Computing News:
- Digibarn newsletter reboot
- Inside Spacebar! at mass:werk
- Google60
- Connor Krukosky presents at SHARE (“Here’s what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe”)
- 8bit Generation movie
- Retroist interviews National Videogame Museum co-founder Joe Santulli
- 8-bit Weapon interviewed about their creative process
- Art of Atari
- VIC-20 book kickstarter, 2 weeks and a ways to go
- Britain’s first mass-produced commercial computer
- Bletchley Park podcast
- Ultimem VIC-20 expansion card
- PolyMold Moldable Plastic
- Sugru
- Inc. magazine, January 1982
Vintage Computer “Commercial” (sort of):
Retro Computing Gift Idea:
Auction Picks:
- Earl: Commodore Amiga 1200
- Jack: Atari 8-bit Lunar Lander
- Michael: When retro computers collide
- Paul: eProbe set
Feedback/Discussion:
Intro / Closing Song: Back to Oz by John X – link
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