Tintin on the Moon

Tintin on the Moon by Herge

Tintin on the Moon is a 1987 video game loosely based on the Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon comic books from The Adventures of Tintin, the series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is a first-person shoot ’em up/side scroller and the first Tintin video game. The game’s storyline is based loosely on the plot of the Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon comics from the series.

Explorers on the Moon

Explorers on the Moon is the seventeenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in Belgium’s Tintin magazine from October 1952 to December 1953 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1954. Completing a story arc begun in the preceding volume, Destination Moon (1953), the narrative tells of the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and friends Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and Thomson and Thompson who are aboard humanity’s first crewed rocket mission to the Moon.

Destination Moon

Destination Moon is a 1953 book in The Adventures of Tintin comic by Hergé. It was the follow-up to Land of Black Gold. Like most Tintin books, it is 62 pages long and the illustrations are in colour. The book has two parts and was very successful, adding to the fame of Tintin.

Tintin on the Moon

Tintin on the Moon is a 1954 book in The Adventures of Tintin comic by Hergé. It completes the prophetic scientific Tintin adventure that begins with Destination Moon. Hergé was breaking new ground by sending his star characters into space. Although travelling into space has become normal, even routine, today, at the beginning of the 1950s such an idea was still science-fiction.

Key Points

• Tintin on the Moon is a 1987 video game based on the Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon comic books from The Adventures of Tintin.
• Explorers on the Moon is the seventeenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé.
• Destination Moon is a 1953 book in The Adventures of Tintin comic by Hergé.
• Tintin on the Moon is a 1954 book in The Adventures of Tintin comic by Hergé.
• Hergé was breaking new ground by sending his star characters into space in the 1950s, which was still considered science-fiction at the time.
• The story was serialised weekly in Belgium’s Tintin magazine from October 1952 to December 1953 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1954.