Moondust is a generative music video game created for the Commodore 64 by virtual reality pioneer, Jaron Lanier and is widely considered the first art video game and also the first interactive music publication.
Lanier formed VPL which would later go on to create the DataGlove and to become one of the primary innovators of virtual-reality research and development throughout the 1980s.
Moondust’s gameplay is characterized by graphical complexity, and the game features an abstract ambient score. The goal of the game is to guide a spaceman around the screen creating strange patterns and getting bullet-shaped spaceships to pass through the trails that the spaceman creates. In in-game scoring system assigns point-values according to an algorithm.