Lost In Translation/Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom

Buck Rogers ; Planet of Zoom
Manufacturer	Sega
Released	1982
Control; Method	8-way Joystick; 3 Button(s)
Main CPU	(3x) Z80 (@ 4.992 MHz); Z80 (@ 4.992 MHz)
Sound CPU	Mono; Discrete
Video; Details	Raster (Horizontal); 512 x 224 pixels; 59.09 Hz; 1,024 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	23 ROMs; 191,040 bytes (186.56 KiB)
MAME ID	buckrog · buckrogn · zoom909

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About The Game

Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom is a chase-view shoot-em-up.

Trivia

Released in December 1982.

Also released as "Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom [Upright model]"

This game is also known as "Zoom 909".

This games continue feature was unlimited, (which made the high score meaningless). That 'feature' made the game unpopular with the best players, (what's the point if you can just buy the top score ?).

Kelly Keenan holds the official record for this game with 1,016,495 points on April 12, 1984.

Series

Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom [Cockpit model] (1982)
Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom [Upright model] (1982)
Buck Rogers - Countdown To Doomsday (1990 - MS-DOS)
Buck Rogers - Matrix Cubed (1992 - MS-DOS)

Staff

Security By: Masatoshi Mizunaga

Cabinet and Artwork

Buck Rogers arcade cabinet.
Buck Rogers upright arcade cabinet.
Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom flyer.
Inside of the Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom flyer.
Inside of the Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom flyer.
Back of the Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom flyer.

Ports

Consoles: Atari 2600 (1983); Atari 5200 (1983); Colecovision (1983); Atari XEGS; Sega SG-1000 (1985, "Zoom 909")

Computers: Mattel Aquarius (1982); Atari 800 (1983); Commodore VIC-20 (1983); Commodore C64 (1983); Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (1983); PC [Booter] (1984); PC [MS-DOS] (1984); Amstrad CPC (1985, "3D Fight"); Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1985); Apple II

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Legend of Game Music ~CONSUMER BOX~	SCDC-00497~506^[1]	2006-03-24	Scitron Digital Contents	10 CD version.

External Links

Sinclair ZX Spectrum version of Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom at the World of Spectrum

References

↑ Legend of Game Music ~CONSUMER BOX~ (CD) at the VGMdb

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.

[1] Legend of Game Music ~CONSUMER BOX~ (CD) at the VGMdb

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