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Lunar Landing Game was written by Jim Storer , a 17-year-old high school student in 1969 .
It's a game about using your fuel supply to slow and control the craft's descent.
When the craft reaches the surface the player gets a report on their landing speed and remaining fuel.
The game was written in the early programming language FOCAL and became popular as a programming challenge.
Now retired, Martin C. Martin has found and fixed a bug that's been dormant for 55 years .
Lunar Landing Game was coded in 1969 by a high-school student.
Coder found and fixed a bug in the game after four decades .
The bug means the game is trying to approximate the bottom of the trajectory.
Even with the bug, there are some optimal landing strategies but "the theoretical full-thrust-on-landing suicide burn, that takes around 148 seconds , eludes us".
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