Talk:Lunar Lander (video game genre)

message: the new Lander (by Psygnosis, 1999) addition made the whole article pop up under the "1999 computer and video games" catagory.  perhaps to fix this an additional "Lander" redirect article should be made, as the 1999 game is called "Lander" not "Lunar Lander".
I have created a new page for Lander and slightly edited the text here. I don't know what I'm doing with the categorisations so I haven't edited those, but it may need removing from this page now. JammyB 19:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: now fixed categorisations and added Lander (video game) link to "see also" section of article. Roidroid (talk) 09:29, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lander vs Lunar Lander 

message: Brouhaha, thanks for the GT40 infobox (and picture)! I still wish I had one of those (systems). By the way, if you've ever seen the VT-55-based simulation of that game (that ran on RSTS/E, RSX-11, and OS/8), I'm the one who wrote that. It started as BASIC-PLUS but I migrated it to PAL-11 and PAL-8 machine language for improved speed of execution. On RSTS/E, it was actually a multi-user Run-time system.
Atlant 13:13, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Phil Budne and I developed VT11(GT4x)/VS60 support for the SIMH PDP-11 simulation, now hosted at GIThub.  You have to disable the DZ and enable the VT device before running the Lunar Lander program.  RT-11 (through version 5.3) could add VT11/VS60 support during SYSGEN, after which it could use the display like a glass Teletype (.GT ON), and EDIT and TECO would show the text being edited on the display. — DAGwyn 71.121.204.138 (talk) 05:05, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks! 

message: Anyone know anything about the GBA version?  I don't, but it's in the category and a quick search confirms its existence.  --Mgreenbe 19:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game Boy Advance 

message: A split has been proposed sind August 2006. Seems a good idea to me. Rl 09:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Against.  The Atari game is clearly derived from the PDP-11 one (as indicated by the screenshots).  And it looks like all the variants are at least somewhat related.  For that reason and also simply because the subject matter is the same so any splitting would end up duplicating a bunch of description. Paul Koning 17:37, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

text: For.  Unless you can find documentation that one came from the other, its pure speculation and WP:OR. --Marty Goldberg 06:11, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed split

message: There's also a Lunar Lander game for the CDC mainframes.  It's roughly contemporary with the PDP-11 version, perhaps a bit older.  It differs from the others discussed here because it shows a view from the cockpit -- out the window (you see sky or terrain) and at the instruments.  This makes it substantially harder because you don't have the "big picture" view.  Paul Koning 17:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  LUNAR for CDC Cyber 

message: Is this not a video game genre than a series? There is no shared sense of development team or vision or anything. Just a shared concept at the centre. I would recommend renaming to Lunar Lander clone or Lunar Lander (video game genre) or something like that.--Coin945 (talk) 03:50, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, "Lunar Lander (video game genre)" maybe. You're right that it's not really a series, so "genre" might be closer. Let me think about it for a bit, and then maybe move it/adjust the lead to match. --PresN 04:33, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well technically it's a subset of the Flight simulator genre of games, specifically Space flight simulations. It could be called a Landing simulator?--Coin945 (talk) 13:33, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: At that point we're just making up our own name, though, isntead of using its actual name. --PresN 13:39, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, renamed to "Lunar Lander (video game genre)". --PresN 15:25, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename of article 

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message: Shouldn't this be "Lunar lander (video game genre)" to follow correct capitalization?  Other genres do not capitalize both words.  Perhaps this is a remnant of when this article was about a specific game?  It no longer is, so the title should be corrected.98.13.3.175 (talk) 20:42, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an odd effect from the genre being named after a specific, two-word game; most genres with a name in them are named after a single-word game (Doom clone, Rouge-like). --PresN 23:29, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of article