Sending stuff to space is always fun, but deciding what to launch is tricky — if you have the choice.

For Ronnie Doyle, his decision was a copy of Earthbound, the 1994 SNES game which has become a cult favourite in the years gone by.

Doyle told Kotaku he had the opportunity to send something "smaller than a lunchbox" to space, after his grandfather made a donation to a science group called Earth To Sky Calculus .

Of course, copies of Earthbound go for hundreds of dollars now, leaving this to be one expensive and risky experiment. Fortunately, Doyle said the cartridge still works, despite the rough landing.