This page is devoted to the unique game with the "left thread" - Lander.


About Lander

Games exist which are an unquestioned authority of the industry. Recognized leaders of the genre, and sometimes also progenitors of their own. There are few such games, and in the history of the game industry, they add up to only a dozen or two. But they remain a signal event in the industry. An example which the remainder will try to equal. Elite, Dune 2, Myst, DooM, Quake, Half-Life. Hits which have introduced new gameplay into gaming reality. Game processes unforseen and unexpected by contemporaries. Innovators and blockbusters.

But there is another category of innovators. Games which represent no less, and at times more value, but which do not become hits, and consequently do not give rise to genre directions in the industry for reasons completely independent of the games themselves. These reasons are banal - hardware, a game device in particular, be it a mouse or joystick, should be ready for the arrival of software into the world which is fundamentally new. I doubt that it is possible to evaluate the merits of Quake when playing without the use of a mouse. Lander was just such a case where mice were of insufficient quality for the game at the moment Lander appeared. To play Lander at that time, one had to play with the aid of a keyboard(!) although Lander''s gameplay demands a high-precision analog device - either a MX500-class mouse which only appeared five years later, or a Microsoft DualStrike-class joystick. Graphically, the game was also irreproachable. And only this fact drew the attention of the press to the game in the already distant year 1999. But the principal thing in any game is the gameplay, and it remained completely unnoticed. As a consequence there was no recognition or hullabaloo as there was after Dune 2 or DooM, and there were no continuations or inheritors which might have changed the game industry beyond recognition.

Now, both mice and joysticks exist with which it is possible to play and see Lander in all its glory. And this means that players obtain a fundamentally new game process which has never existed before. More than this, they obtain a new game genre! The genre of Lander which is described in more detail on the "Description of the Idea" page.

This site is dedicated to Lander. It is intended to help pilots become familiarized with the unusual game process and to resolve possible difficulties. I am happy to show you an alternative world. The Universe of Lander.

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