One of the things I certainly never did when I was at high school was play games on the Acorn computers at lunchtime when we weren’t allowed to do so. And one of those games I certainly never played was called Lander.
Lander was a free game that came on one of the RISC OS disks, and was, in fact, a demo of a bigger game called Zarch. Imagine my surprise when I found out that Zarch was actually an Acorn version of a David Braben (of Elite fame) Spectrum game from a few years previous: Virus. So much for the game showing off the power of the Archimedies!
Anyhoo, here it is. In all its impossible-to-controllness!
The emulator used is Qaop.
I never did that too! I’ve never seen or played that game ever before…. no sir!
Was Zarch not first (after the Lander demo, admittedly)? If not, update the Wikipedia page for Zarch which is clearly lacking in correct information!
It turns out you are correct!