Before he ruined Twitter, made cars that burst into flames and started blowing up space rockets, the ex-richest person in the world, Elon Musk made video games. Yup, this is one of those pointless little facts that you may not have known, and really won’t care to remember 5 minutes after reading this… but I’m still gonna tell you about it anyway.

It all began in 1984, 12-year-old Elon programmed a game called Blastar (not to be confused with Blaster from Williams). Blastar was a bare-basic shooter that was mildly inspired by Space Invaders. The code for Blastar was published in PC and Office Technology magazine in South Africa, and Elon earned himself $500 for it too. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you can play Blastar in your browser by clicking right here if you really want to. It is a very simple game and not particularly good, even for back then. I can only assume that PC and Office Technology magazine was massively desperate for any old code to print if they paid $500 for it in 1984.

Anyway, Elon later joined a small studio called Rocket Science Games in the 90s. You remember Rocket Science Games, right? They made classic titles like… err… I can’t think of any. In fact, the founder of the company, Steve Blank, wrote an article for Forbes magazine in 2011 where he said the following:

“We raised $35 million and after 18 months made the cover of Wired magazine. The press called Rocket Science one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley and predicted that our games would be great because the storyboards and trailers were spectacular. 90 days later, I found out our games are terrible, no one is buying them, our best engineers started leaving, and with 120 people and a huge burn rate, we’re running out of money and about to crash.”

And crash they did. But before that happened, Rocket Science Games made titles that focused on FMV, just as the whole FMV craze was booming in the early ’90s. Elon is believed to have worked on at least three games while at Rocket Science Games. The not-very-good on-rails shooter Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine and the also not-very-good ‘sequel’ (and nothing like the quite good original arcade game) Cadillacs & Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm, both for the SEGA-CD and DOS. Elon also worked on a pretty good game called Rocket Jockey, so says one of that game’s devs. According to Elon himself, he was a low-level programmer, just a summer intern at the time, and he even Tweeted a few details on his work too.

While not a massive contribution to the world of gaming, Elon’s efforts are largely forgotten about now, as he is too busy destroying a popular social media platform (while losing a ton of money) and blowing up cars and rockets these days.