Elon Musk is known around the world as an innovator and inventor. However, few people know that his commercial success, he didn't start companies Zip2 and PayPal, as with conventional video games, which he created and sold in 12 years. And today, thanks to the Internet, try out the first successful product of a billionaire can be anyone.

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Elon Musk is known around the world as an innovator and inventor. However, few people know that his commercial success, he didn't start companies Zip2 and PayPal, as with conventional video games, which he created and sold in 12 years. And today, thanks to the Internet, try out the first successful product of a billionaire can be anyone.

not surprisingly, Musk, 43 years dreaming about the colonization of Mars and the production of reusable space rockets began their journey with games about space. Blastar, which was designed for personal computers, hardly surprised today's gamers, but in 1984 the Mask managed to sell it to the PC and Office Technology for $500. The game is a simplified mix of Space Invaders and Asteroid.

Reproduction of the game for HTML5 was created by the development engineer software from Google that I found the link to the original code in the biographical book "Elon Musk. Tesla, SpaceX and the road to the future" Ashley Vance. Find the browser-based version Blastar at this link.