This is the video game that Elon Musk designed when he was 12 years old (and that you can try yourself)

Before he was the billionaire who bought Twitter, Elon Musk I was a teenager eager to learn programming. At just 12 years old, Musk designed (and sold) a Space Invaders-style video game.

Elon Musk began his business career at an early age: while studying at the University of Pennsylvania, he opened a successful nightclub out of his rented house. He now controls supercompanies like Tesla and SpaceX, in addition to having bought the giant Twitter. But Elon Musk has shown aim high from childhood.

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When he was just nine years old, Musk received his first computer, a Commodore VIC-20, whose manual taught the BASIC computer language. The boy Elon learned it in three days and started programming. At the age of 12 (1984), under the pseudonym “ER”, Musk programmed a video game called Blastar.

Blastar was published on page 69 of ‘PC and Office Technology’, a South African technology magazine. Elon had sold his game to the magazine for $500.

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The game consists, under the same idea of ​​Space Invaders (1978), in dodge “deadly hydrogen bombs” and “state ray machines”, while you shoot to enemy ships to gain points.

But Elon Musk’s Blastar would have been forgotten if not for journalist Ashlee Vance, author of Musk’s biography, who found the magazine with the code. Then Tomas Lloret, a Google software engineer, read the code and turned it into an online game for everyone in the world to try.

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Do you want to try the video game that Elon Musk designed at the age of 12? Find it at this link. You can also see a gameplay below.

Source: Elcomercio

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