40 yrs of Lunar Lander - the other anniversary

[Chuck Guzis]

On 22 Jul 2009 at 22:18, Dan Roganti wrote:

> 40 yrs of Lunar Lander - the other anniversary
> http://technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/
> 
> "Lexington High School had a PDP-8," Storer recalls. "It had 8 
> Teletypes, a small hard drive, and 12KB of main memory, where 8KB was
> used by the system and 4KB time shared by the users." Storer wrote his
> new program, "Lunar Landing Game," in FOCAL, a programming language
> for the PDP-8 that was similar in some ways to BASIC (both were
> introductory languages known for their ease of use). His simulation
> was simple, yet powerful: underneath lay a realistic set of equations
> Storer believes his father may have taught him.

I've played the LEM game on a CDC 6600 operator's console way back 
when.  Was that the first graphical version of the game?  How many 
other games used graphics in 1970?

--Chuck