He Invented A Game
One of the interesting facts about Elon Musk is that he was working on a game in his room while the other ten-year-olds were learning how to ride a bike and handle other tasks. At age 12, he created the space shooter game Blastar. The Commodore Vic-20 computer was used to build the game, which is still playable today. Elon earned $500 by selling the code to a computer magazine. Musk wrote the code for a rather straightforward space shooter and sold it to a PC magazine for a few hundred dollars. A Google software engineer named Tomas Lloret decided to make an HTML 5 version of the game that can be played on the Web after that code was reproduced in the recently published biography of Elon Musk.
People can remember being a second grader in 1986 and being obsessed with Apple Logo, the company's educational programming language that enchanted as many young students as it perplexed their teachers. Most people who have played a game in the last 30 years probably won't be impressed by young Musk's efforts. I entered the InventAmerica competition in true Elon Musk fashion, with the intention of using Logo to create a space-themed video game.
Blastar is still in the headlines after 39 years, despite the fact that we have games that come close to simulating real-life experiences. A version of this online classic in HTML has been attempted by Tomas Lloret. Musk also worked with the gaming start-up "Rocket Science."
