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Lunar Lander is a genre of video games loosely based on the 1969 landing of the Apollo Lunar Module on the Moon.In Lunar Lander games, players control a spacecraft as it falls toward the surface of the Moon or other astronomical body, using thrusters to slow the ship's descent and control its horizontal motion to reach a safe landing area.
Stair Quest is a non-commercial comedy adventure game serving as an homage to Sierra's King's Quest series and similar games, originally released in 2016. The game takes place within a classic Sierra game interface; despite this, however, you are tasked primarily with traversing screens full of stairs to comedic effect, an aspect of Sierra's earlier adventure games that has been noted as a ...
Starflight is a space exploration, combat, and trading role-playing video game created by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts in 1986. Originally developed for IBM PC compatibles, it was later ported to the Amiga, Atari ST, Mac, and Commodore 64. A fully revamped version of the game was released for the Genesis in 1991.
The series has several games which carry the main story arc: StarCraft, its expansion pack StarCraft: Brood War, and the trilogy StarCraft II. In addition, the series incorporates media that include spin-off video games, [1] tabletop games, [2] novelizations, graphic novels, and other literature. [3] A variety of toys have also been produced. [4]
Landing High Japan (ランディングハイジャパン) is an arcade video game in which the object is to pilot a commercial airliner, taking off from and landing at several Japanese airports. [1] It is a part of the Landing series of airline simulation arcade games which also includes Midnight Landing (1987), Top Landing (1988) and Landing ...
Wayfinder is an action role-playing video game played from a third-person perspective. The game can be played solo, though it also supports three-player cooperative multiplayer . [ 1 ] There are eight different characters for players to choose from, with each having their own unique skills and attack styles.
Mighty Math is a collection of six educational video games for the Windows and Macintosh platforms, developed and published by Edmark software. As the title indicates, the games are heavily oriented on mathematics. Two of each games cater for different age groups with fitting content.
Usage in video games includes the drop shuttles from Mass Effect and the Pelicans and dropships from Halo, as well as the Terran dropship unit in the StarCraft series. Shuttlecraft have seen widespread use by all the major factions in the Star Wars franchise.