I played this a couple of times in the midle of the 80ies.
You can move left and right and a bit up and down. - One background show the statues from the easterislands.- Also I remember those guys with hat and umbrella walking from one side to the other.
eckart,
wow what a great little sketch, you must be an artiste. (left the e on porpose)
So was it a Space Harrier type game? IS that what you could compare it with?
eckart wrote:I played this a couple of times in the midle of the 80ies.
You can move left and right and a bit up and down. - One background show the statues from the easterislands.- Also I remember those guys with hat and umbrella walking from one side to the other.
Maybe one can remember.
A little sketch.
If it looks like this then it is "Buck Rogers in planet of zoom"??
A game from SEGA in the '80.
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I do remember going to this little retro arcade inside a video rental store in Fresno, CA back in January 1990 -- it had a Sega 1982 deluxe sit-down arcade cabinet of "Buck Rogers in Planet Zoom" -- USA Bios version. Very cool scaling graphics for it's time (all done by hand, of course).
It was even shown on the USA syndicated TV show of Starcade hosted by Geoff Edwards back in 1982-1983. Cool show for it's time. ^_~
Hope I will find a cheap board and it also will have a dipflipscreen option. This old pcb`s often have the wrong screenposition.- urghdimension.
Haha, I hear you on that. Although, I thinks it's that modern Arcade machines have the wrong screen position, not the old PCBs. Is there a special reason why new vertical cabs have the monitor rotated counter-clockwise where old ones are rotated clockwise? What year was it that they started making the change to counter-clockwise as default?
The Last War'99 and Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom are both in my old Hi-Sc book. Alongside Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom is the note; "7xRound", but go easy on me, i was only 12
I used to play it in a newsagent shop after school and I thought it was great!
There's no score listed beside The Last War'99 and I only just remember it. Probably in the arcade for 2 weeks and never to be seen again. That's the weird thing about the arcade business, it was always about; install what's new and take out the 1 month old, regardless of how good the game was...