Moon-buggy

Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game where you drive some kind of car across the moon’s surface. Unfortunately there are dangerous craters there. Fortunately your car can jump over them!

The game has some resemblance of the classic arcade game moon-patrol which was released in 1982. A clone of this game was relased for the Commodore C64 in 1983. The present, ASCII art version of moon-buggy was written many years later by Jochen Voss.

Screen Shots

The moon-buggy title screen

The moon-buggy high score table

You can still see the ruins of a crashed moon-buggy at the lower right.

The source code is also available on github.com/seehuhn/moon-buggy.

If you like my little game, you might consider buying me a present ;-)

Related links

• Nick Warne created Slackware Linux packages for moon-buggy. These can be found at the linuxpackages.net site.
• Moon-buggy is mentioned in the March 2003 issue of the Brave GNU World.
• There are precompiled binaries for the Debian Linux Distribution. They may be found at the moon-buggy Debian packages page.
• I am pleased to be aware of a Moon-Buggy Fanpage.
• The NASA web page has a photo of the real moon buggy.
• If you are a teacher and want to use the moon-buggy for teaching, you really should look at the great NASA’s moon-buggy lesson ;-)