Lazarus Archive · LZ-25024

The Lunar Pursuit

Oscar Nasser, 1983. Game for MSX computers.

Description

A platform game for MSX computers that Oscar Nasser wrote alone and released as shareware in 1983.

Provenance

Deposited by Three Rivers Retro Computing Society, from its own collections. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All files were recovered; 51 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
28b6d3f18a200bf91a3217711ba6fecc8d63eb9355d901f3d2dda0c37e52329d
Last verified
Oct 18, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-MSX-4 · lz-z80 core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-MSX-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on MSX computers.

Cite as: Oscar Nasser, The Lunar Pursuit (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-25024.

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