Elon Musk is a man with simple dreams. To build an electric-car empire, harness the power of the sun, invent a new mode of transportation, colonize Mars. You know, simple stuff.
Turns out, as a kid, he had another dream: To blow up aliens. And since he hadn’t built a reusable rocketship yet, he built the next-best thing: A video game.
12-year-old Elon Musk’s game, a “Space Invaders”-like shooter called “Blastar,” was sold to a computer magazine in 1984 for a few hundred dollars and forgotten by history.
Until now. Thanks to the Internet (and a Google engineer who recently recoded it for HTML5), we can all play Li’l Elon’s game. (And don’t you dare mute that beautiful 8-bit sound.)
(At top: A screenshot from “Blastar.”)
