when we hear about elon musk Today and the first thing that comes to mind are Tesla cars, SpaceX rockets and satellites, and even flamethrowers, tunnels to escape traffic (more or less) or Twitter’s crazy stuff about buying 10% of it. Musk is now 50, and throughout his youth, he wasn’t thinking about electric cars or space rockets, as most of them were devoted to video games.

The billionaire CEO of some of the world’s most innovative companies was very different from what he was when he was 12, come on, like almost everyone else. Elon Musk wanted to be a video game programmer and in 1984 he had the opportunity to publish his first game, ‘Blastar’.

Restlessness and creativity

Be careful not to confuse Musk’s ‘Blastar’ with the 1983 arcade ‘Blastar’ or the 1993 Amiga ‘Blastar’. No, this game is older and was programmed by a young Elon in 1983. It was published in 1984 when Elon was 12 years old. Thanks to selling it to ‘PC and Office Technology’ magazine in South Africa for 500 dollars. With the money he bought another computer, comics and an edition of ‘Dungeons and Dragons’.

‘Blastar’ featured on page 69 and signed by “ER Musk”, that would be his stage name as a video game programmer. Musk sold the video game with the following description: “In this game, you must destroy an alien spaceship carrying deadly hydrogen bombs and ‘status beams'”. Generally speaking, ‘Blastar’ was a simplified version of ‘Alien Invaders’; the goal here was to shoot the enemies before they kill us.

30 years after its release, ‘Blastar’ has come to light again thanks to Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, and Ashlee Vance, who posted it in her biography of the current Tesla CEO. Tomas Lloret, a reader and fan of Elon, decided to adapt it to HTML5 and make it online for free so everyone knows the origins of Elon Musk.

And Rocket Science Games came

As early as 1994 and at the age of 23, Elon Musk was a recent graduate and came to Silicon Valley looking for any job that seemed interesting. This is how it came to Rocket Science Games, A small studio that creates video games for the Sega CDwhere at that time most stories were supplemented with live action sequences.

As Scott Manley points out, Musk has been credited with titles such as ‘Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine’, ‘Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm’ and ‘Rocket Jockey’. In this studio, Elon was responsible for writing first-level basic code in addition to writing and programming. drivers this allows you to control the games from various controllers.

Peter Barrett, co-founder of Rocket Science Games, said in Musk’s bio that his stance was completely ambivalent because it was difficult to instruct him because in the end he always did what he wanted. A button, for example: After becoming Twitter’s largest shareholder, the first thing he did was hit the “Edit” button.

At the end of 1995, Musk decided to leave the world of video games to focus on the internet, renewable energy and space projects. And from here, the rest is history. The person who started developing a version of ‘Space Invaders’ became the richest person in the world. $219,000 million real estate.