Terra Firma

The second game, to my knowledge, that I have ever built.

It's a Lunar Lander clone, more or less, only way more basic. Because Lunar Lander was so complicated to start with.

Object

Get from the blue pad to the green pad. If you hit the green pad too hard, you'll blow up! Oh, and it's permadeath (you drop back at level 1 if you die) so watch those walls!

Controls

Thrust: W or Space

Fire RCS jets (spin): A and D

Story

If you're a bit of a fanny like me and you like your incredibly basic games to have a backstory, here you go:

You are Dr Querulous Horowitz, a scientist of some renown but more ill repute. You set out to prove your peers wrong by building a rocket to the stars! Unfortunately, just as the countdown reaches zero, you realise your thrust controls are labelled the wrong way round and you end up thrusting down into the earth. Oh no!

So, having surreptitiously swapped the boost stickers so they're the right way round again, you find yourself in a series of increasingly intricate (and inexplicably animate) underground caverns - can you find your way through and return to Terra Firma?