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Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game
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Moonbase Alpha was finally released in July 2010 as "a realistic multiplayer game that will allow players to experience a hypothetical day in the life of a lunar astronaut." DECtalk is probably most recognizable as Stephen Hawking's voice—he used a CallText 5010 unit with the Perfect Paul voice for nearly 30 years, which was replaced by a reverse-engineered and emulated version near the end of his life. Starlite was planned as a PC, mobile, and console game based around the fictional Arthur C. Clarke Astronaut Academy Station, described as "a sort of Hogwarts in space."
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