Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday is the first of two TSR RPG Games that came out in the early 1990s. At the time I found it an excellent game as the adventure gave you a lot of game play and I enjoyed playing it over several times. Granted, by today standards the Graphics aren't great, pretty basic in fact, and the sound effects are poor, but for the time I'd have rated it an eight out of ten. It is in the vein of the old TSR medieval/fantasy RPGs.
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday is the first of two TSR RPG Games that came out in the early 1990s. At the time I found it an excellent game as the adventure gave you a lot of game play and I enjoyed playing it over several times. Granted, by today standards the Graphics aren't great, pretty basic in fact, and the sound effects are poor, but for the time I'd have rated it an eight out of ten. It is in the vein of the old TSR medieval/fantasy RPGs. You start the game on earth as a fledgling warrior, pilot, medic, engineer, or rogue and battle to save earth from the evil RAM cooperation that has tried to take over the whole solar
system. You traverse many of the planets in the solar system as well as the asteroid belt and you come across strange and bizarre creatures such as the solar system has never known before.
The second installment of the game was an even better thought out role playing game than Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday. It is Buck Rogers Matrix Cubed, I believe. In that game you take up where you leave off in this one even though it isn't necessary to have it to enjoy this first game of Buck Rogers. It does leave you something to look forward too though.
You will be traveling in a Rocket ship throughout the Solar System of the Buck Rogers from way back in the 1930s when he was first introduced, sort of. In truth, this game is better thought out than the story of the past, much better thought out. I must say that I truly enjoyed the game at the time I first got it, though now of course I play it more for nostalgic reasons than for any other.
To top it all off, if you enjoy role playing games like this, TSR actually put out the Buck Rogers Role Playing Game for those of us with the willingness to stick with the worlds of Buck Rogers. I must say that it has got to have been one of my favorite role playing games of the time with great mechanics that are easy to learn. I played it with my three children as they were growing up and had a blast doing so.
Anyway, if you like the old role playing games of the early 1990s, give this one a try.
