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Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
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Console: Commodore 64
Region:U
Year: 1990
RFG ID #: U-018-S-06370-A
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UPC: 016685051350
Developer: SSI Special Projects Team
Publisher: Strategic Simulations Inc (SSI)
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Genre: RPG
Sub-genre: Turn Based
Players: 1
Controller: Joystick + Keyboard
Media Format: 5.25" Floppy Disk x3
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  • 3 of 7621 collectors (0%) have this game in their collection
  • 0 of 7621 collectors (0%) have this game in their wishlist.
  • 0 of 7621 collectors (0%) have this game for sale or trade.
Game Trivia:

  • The game uses the fictional American character Buck Rogers who first appeared in a novella titled 'Armageddon 2419 A.D' by Philip Francis Nowlan in 1928. Buck Rogers went on to appear in comic strips, and on radio, movies and television.
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Game Credits:

  • Game Development: Bret Berry
  • Preliminary Game Development: Graeme Bayless
  • Commodore 64 Programming: Jim Jennings, Paul Murray
  • Encounter Development: Dave Shelley
  • Encounter Authors: Dave Shelley (Chicagorg, Ram Spy Ship), Ken Humphries (Salvation, Solar System, Rocketship Boarding, Asteroid Base, Pirate Cruiser, Outposts), Rhonda Gilbert (Venusian Wilderness, Lowlander Town, Lowlander Base, Venusian Ruins, Mercury Mariposas), Ken Eklund (Mars Wilderness, Desert Runner Village, Mars Ram Bas)
  • Art Director: Tom Wahl
  • Artists: Laura Bowen (Portraits, Combat Terrain & Effects), Fred Butts (Overland Maps, 3D Walls & Sprites), Mark Johnson (Combat Monsters, and Title Page), Cyrus Lum (Animations, Combat Walls, Combat Ships & Explosions), Susan Manley (Combat Party and Outposts), Mike Provenza (Planets, Combat Ships, and Large Graphics), Maurine Starkey (Specials and Animations), Tom Wahl (Ship Combat Display, Solar Map,Borders and Font)
  • Music: Tom Wahl
  • Documentation: Rick Wilson
  • In-House Playtesting: Chad Caseill, Cliff Mann, Cyrus Harris, David Lucca, Don McClure, Erik Fiom, Glen Cureton, John kirk, Larry Webber, Rick White, Rick Wilson
  • Project Manager: Victor Penman
  • Additional C64 Programming: Westwood AssocIates
  • Art, Graphic Design & DTP: Louis Saekow Design: David Boudreau, Peter Gascoyne
  • Pre-press Production: Louis Saekow Design: Kirk Nichols, Ray Garcia
  • Printing: Muller PrIntIng Co.
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