Carl Sagan pitched a Contact video game in 1983

Famed astronomer Carl Sagan wanted to bring his expertise to the world of video games in the 1980s, a pitch document recently unearthed from the Library of Congress by Kotaku reveals. Sagan’s pitch for an interactive experience based on his novel Contact proposed “a home video game which would teach a great deal of astronomy in a context as exciting as most violent video games.” Related:  The main ingredient in No Man’s Sky ‘s random galaxy recipe? Simple math