Role-playing games and video games Buck Rogers

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1 role-playing games , video games

1.1 buck rogers xxvc

1.1.1 books

1.1.1.1 ten paperback novels set in xxvc universe published, starting in 1989
1.1.1.2 based on game


1.1.2 pinball
1.1.3 video games


1.2 high-adventure cliffhangers
1.3 planet of zoom video game





role-playing games , video games
buck rogers xxvc

in 1988, tsr, inc. created game setting based on buck rogers, called buck rogers xxvc. many products produced set in universe, including comic books, novels, role-playing game material , video games. in role-playing game, player characters allied buck rogers , neo (the new earth organisation) in fight against ram (a russian-american corporation based on mars). games extensively featured gennies (genetically enhanced organisms). gameplay of buck rogers - battle 25th century board game tsr dealt token movement , resource management. there purported single expansion board game called martian wars expansion, not known if ever released.


books

from 1990 1991, ten comics modules set in buck rogers xxvc universe published, entitled rude awakening #1 - #3, black barney #1 - #3. , martian wars #1-#4. these shared numbering series issues #1 - #10 issue #10 flip-book intruder #10. there has been speculation 2 more stories printed not distributed.


ten paperback novels set in xxvc universe published, starting in 1989

arrival (anthology) flint dille, abigail irvine, melinda seabrooke (m.s.) murdock, jerry oltion, ulrike o reilly , robert sheckley (tsr, mar 1989, isbn 0-88038-582-0)

the martian wars trilogy



rebellion 2456 m.s. murdock (tsr, may 1989, isbn 0-88038-728-9)
hammer of mars m.s. murdock (tsr, aug 1989, isbn 0-88038-751-3)
armageddon off vesta m.s. murdock (tsr, oct 1989, isbn 0-88038-761-0)

the inner planets trilogy



first power play john miller (tsr, aug 1990, isbn 0-88038-840-4)
prime squared m.s. murdock (tsr, oct 1990, isbn 0-88038-863-3)
matrix cubed britton bloom (tsr, may 1991, isbn 0-88038-885-4)

invaders of charon trilogy



the genesis web ellen c. & theodore m. brennan (c.m. brennan) (tsr, may 1992, isbn 1-56076-093-1)
nomads of sky william h. keith, jr. (tsr, oct 1992, isbn 1-56076-098-2)
warlords of jupiter william h. keith, jr. (tsr, feb 1993, isbn 1-56076-576-3)

also based on game

buck rogers: life in future martin caidin, standalone novel retelling original story. (tsr, 1995, isbn 0-7869-0144-6)

pinball

at beginning of 1980, few months after show debuted, gottlieb came out buck rogers pinball machine commemorate resurgence of franchise.


video games

in 1990, strategic simulations, inc. released buck rogers xxvc video game, countdown doomsday, commodore 64, ibm pc, sega mega drive, , other platforms. released sequel, matrix cubed, in 1992.


high-adventure cliffhangers

in 1995, tsr created new , unrelated buck rogers role-playing game called high-adventure cliffhangers. return themes of original buck rogers comic strips. game included biplanes , interracial warfare, opposed space combat of earlier game. there few expansion modules created high-adventure cliffhangers. shortly afterward, game discontinued, , production of buck rogers rpgs , games came end. game neither advertised nor popular. there 2 published products: box set, , war against han .


planet of zoom video game

sega released arcade video game buck rogers: planet of zoom (japanese: バック・ロジャース：プラネット・オブ・ズーム, hepburn: bakku rojāsu: puranetto obu zūmu) in 1982. forward-scrolling rail shooter user controls spaceship in behind-the-back third-person perspective must destroy enemy ships , avoid obstacles; game notable fast pseudo-3d scaling , detailed sprites. game later go on influence 1985 sega game space harrier, in turn influenced 1993 nintendo title star fox. in japan, game known zoom 909 (japanese: ズーム909, hepburn: zūmu kyū-maru-kyū), title shared smooth conversion of game sega sg-1000 console.


buck never seen in game , real connections buck rogers use of name , outer space setting. home versions released atari 2600, atari 5200, atari 8-bit family, colecovision, coleco adam, intellivision, msx , sega sg-1000 video game systems, , vic-20, commodore 64, texas instruments ti-99/4a, apple ii , zx spectrum computers. version ibm pc using cga graphics available.








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