By Jochen Voss, last updated 2014-10-12
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.
Moon-Buggy version 1.0, Copyright 2004 Jochen Voss <voss@seehuhn.de>
Moon-Buggy comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type 'c' for details.
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M M OOOOO OOOOO N NN
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y,RET:start game q:quit c:show copyright w:show warranty s:show scores r:redraw
You can still see the ruins of a crashed moon-buggy at the lower right.
rank score lvl date expires name
1 1000 1 2003-04-11 -- Thorin
2 990 1 2003-04-11 -- Kili
3 980 1 2003-04-11 -- Gloin
...
68 330 1 2004-11-01 13d Gloin
69 320 1 2004-11-01 11d Gloin
70 310 1 2004-11-01 10d Bofur
71 309 2 2004-12-27 64d Jochen Voss
72 300 1 2004-11-01 6d Bombur
73 290 1 2004-11-01 4d Bifur
...
your score: 309
your rank: 71
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y,RET:new game q,n:quit UP:up DOWN:down b:pg up NEXT:pg down s:reload r:redraw
level: 2 lives: 0 score: 309
The following versions of the program are available:
There is also an experimental, esound-based moon-buggy sound add-on:
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 ;-)
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