Infographic: An Arcade Classic, Charted In Real Time

Lunar Lander’s stark vector graphics aren’t much to look at, but this clever contraption turns the game into something utterly beautiful. Before Asteroids, there was Lunar Lander, a simple arcade game released by Atari in 1979 in which players had to pilot a landing module on a jagged lunar landscape. Seb Lee-Delisle isn’t sure if he encountered the original as a youngster--he was only 7 when it came out--but after discovering an emulated version of Lunar Lander a few years back, he quickly fell in love--and set out to faithfully re-create the game for the web, first in Flash and then in HTML5. But his latest project might be an even more impressive ode to the original. For a video-game-centric exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Lee-Delisle set up a machine that draws players’ progress through the game on a wall-size canvas in real time, transformi...