Rocket Lamps

Lunar lander with a municipal budget

Rocket Lamps is a PC flight game built around the lunar lander concept, recast as a parks and recreation department spending taxpayer money on rockets. You pilot a craft through physics puzzles and tricky flight paths, and crashes are part of the course.

Tricks and times

The game has 20 silly levels. You can race through them, perform tricks for Style Points, or try to balance speed and style in your runs. Its satire targets the military-industrial complex, with the game framing your flights as one more way to inflate the national debt. Each level gives you another chance to fly, crash, and chase Style Points.