AN ORIGINAL INTELLIVISION GAME
Fly to the Moon and back from the cockpit. You ride the rocket up, dock with the Lunar Module, set it down on the Moon, then come home through the fire. Every prompt is in plain English.
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The demo pilot starts flying in a few seconds.
Arrow keys steer, Space is the button, B brakes when docking, M shows the trip map, P pauses.
On the title screen, 1 to 8 pick a stage. In flight, any key: trip map
The strip under the window always tells you what to do next. Between stages the trip map shows how far you've come.
Steer so the green <> stays on the crosshair. Bumpy air and drift keep pushing it away. Stray too long and you lose course.
The bar says when: BUTTON: DROP STAGE!, BUTTON: BIG CHUTES. Engine burns end on a meter, so stop the engine in the green.
Any keypad key pauses the flight and shows where you are on the trip. Press a key again to carry on.
| On the Intellivision | Keyboard | Gamepad | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disc | Arrows or WASD | Stick or D-pad | Steer |
| Top side button | Space or Enter | A | The button |
| Lower side button | B | B or X | Brake while docking |
| Keypad | M, or 0 to 9 | Y | Trip map. On the title screen, 1 to 8 pick a stage |
Each stage you finish gets a rating: ACE, GOOD or MADE IT. If it goes wrong, the game says what happened and how to avoid it, for example LOST COURSE and KEEP <> ON CROSS, and the button tries again.
The whole mission, in order. These are real screens, flown by the game's own demo pilot, and any stage can be flown on its own.
STAGE 1 OF 8
Ride the rocket into orbit around Earth. The blue sky goes black as you climb.
STAGE 2 OF 8
Fire the engine to break out of orbit toward the Moon. Earth falls away below the windows.
STAGE 3 OF 8
The Lunar Module (LM) rides on the rocket. Separate, turn round and pick it up nose-on.
STAGE 4 OF 8
Turn the engine first. Behind the Moon you lose the radio, so you brake alone, with craters streaming past. Get it right and Earth rises in the window.
STAGE 5 OF 8
A new cockpit, with a triangle window and Earth up in the corner. Clear the alarm, steer clear of the boulders, and at 400 feet the landing is yours.
STAGE 6 OF 8
The Command Module is coming overhead. Go when told, climb to orbit, then look up through the top window and bring the two spacecraft together.
STAGE 7 OF 8
Behind the Moon again, with no radio. Fire the engine for home, then watch Earth grow in the window as you coast back.
STAGE 8 OF 8
Hit the air at the right angle. Too steep and you burn up. Too flat and you skip back into space. Then the radio comes back, the chutes open, and you land in the sea.
The Command Module and the Lunar Module are different places to sit, with different windows and different dials. The game explains each one the first time you use it.
A few things you only see by getting there.
