MIT Media Lab’s Space Falcon 9 Lander, a 8-bit web-game is a combination of all of the pulses of excitement of landing a multi-million dollar prototype spacecraft with a the rage-inducing control scheme from a 1983 Yugo.

The game at least gives very rough idea of what it may look like steering and landing a spacecraft. SpaceX, the American aerospace manufacturer and space transporter service company, has had some lofty ambitions in past.

The Elon Musk headed company’s one such goal is to develop a reusable Falcon 9 rocket, which would significantly reduce the cost of launching rockets to space. This has not at all been the easiest task to complete, as the company has failed in its past two attempts.

The game, SpaceX Falcon 9 Lander, as Popular Mechanics puts it, ‘delightfully difficult’. Since its launch, the browser game, developed using software created by the MIT Media Lab, has already gained quite a following.

Users in order to play this game just need to use the arrow keys to trigger the thruster of the rocket and direct it towards the drone ship landing with a limited amount of fuel.

The game sounds quite simple but while playing suddenly one finds that it’s near to impossible. The lander game will provide its users a new level of sympathy for the difficult of the task.

The game is a remix of a Lunar Lander game by Dixiklo, a contributor to Scratch, a site where users can share interactive stories and games. Scatch is run by the MIT Media Lab. The SpaceX version was released on September 15.