Croooow Plays Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (Genesis)

[MegaXZeroForever]

god i played this game when i was 6 IDK why but i liked it back then.

[shoeman79]

LOL this was an amazing game, best part is space fights, salvage. It is a RPG dream. 2nd level was so scary. Games like this are my foundation to my love of all videogames

[brian8603]

This game is fun as hell, but it is definitely not one you can just pick up and play. The early parts of the game are really hard.

[waspspray]

I feel bad for asking you to play this. At least we all know not to get it

[Croooow111]

@waspspray LOL... don't be. It was hilarious to find out just how complicated the game was. Also now my curiosity about the game is gone now.

[djcondra]

@Croooow111 Jesus Christ guys. If you give this game a chance it is fantastic.

[Croooow111]

@djcondra I did give it a chance. Honestly, this is not my type of game.  I prefer more simplistic RPGs.

[djcondra]

@Croooow111 Thats cool. But I just wanted to weigh in for the game. I played it on Sega back when I was a teenager and it was superb fun. I think hardcore retro gamers will find this to be a diamond in the rough among lesser known 16bit RPGs.

[waspspray]

dude this looks so hard.

[TameFan]

yeah i tried to play this and failed hard

[gmintyfresh]

Cool vid man, I've never seen this game before either

[NeonGenesisPlatinum]

Awesome video man!

I have never seen this game before, thanks a lot.

[pocketmego]

I've been curious about this for a while.

Glad you did a play through...

SDI was famous for making complex RPGs for the C64, Amiga, and early PC. This game was on the Amiga first.

It is definitely designed to play exactly like their other D&D licensed games the company was famous for.

Way to complex for the Genesis!

Not sure how this is Buck Rogers game...since you don't play..uh..Buck Rogers....weird.

[Croooow111]

@pocketmego Yeah, makes sense that this would probably make a better computer game. And it was during the video I realized "Hey! Where's Buck Rogers?"

[The8BitChampion]

lol ya this was a PC game first i think maybe it didn't translate well too the genesis.

[Croooow111]

@The8BitChampion Thanks for the info. The game should've probably stayed on the PC.

[techromancer1]

never seen this cousin..play buck rogers and the planet of zoom ...that's a classic i used to play that in the arcade ..wow chicago space port easy take the metra and visit me ...lol this game looks to complicated ..lol put it away ...lol cool :D

[Croooow111]

@techromancer1 That's pretty much what I did... Put it away.

[sinistermoon]

Doesn't look like a game I would be into at all. But yeah, for a $1, not bad lol.

[Croooow111]

@sinistermoon I don't think this game was for the core Genesis crowd. Like The8BitChampion said, it was a PC game that they decided to port to the Genesis for some reason. I mean, I like RPGs, but this it just way too complicated for me.

[IntellivisionDude]

I have never played this before, but i used to watch Buck Rogers on TV when i was kid. This game wouldn't be for me either. But it would look good on the shelf. lol

[Croooow111]

@IntellivisionDude Well... it does look good on my shelf. So I give it points for that.

[AtariMaxx]

That is the biggest video game manual I have ever seen. lol!

Great Video! :)

[dave4shmups]

Good grief, that manual is longer then the one that came with Desert Strike!! It looks like a manual for a Civilization game!

[RetroGamerVX]

I do love the music though lol buck rodgers is about flying about, shooting shit and looking at breasts, not this kind of thinking stuff lol

[Croooow111]

@RetroGamerVX I'm very unfamiliar with Buck Rodger myself, but I understand he should be way cooler than this game.

[RetroGamerVX]

@Croooow111 Buck Rodgers was a light hearted sci fi, a bit like the original battle star galactica, not this strategic rubbish :o)

[RetroGamerVX]

Lol, I got a game like this recently for the mega drive, I think it lasted about 2 minutes before I packed it back up and put it on the shelf. I play retro games because it does not take hours to learn just how to control the bloody game lol

[Croooow111]

@RetroGamerVX There are very few games I'll play that require indepth knowledge beforehand and this is not one of them.

[MaximumRD]

Damn! Not exactly pick up and play huh? Thorough instructions and a strategy guide needed I think lol!

[Croooow111]

@MaximumRD Yeah, I knew the game was going to be really complicated once I saw the SSI logo.

[MaximumRD]

Heh yeah that is usually a good indication lol!

[RetroGamerVX]

CROOOOW, SERIOUSLY, that game would end up out the bloody window, without the window being opened first!!!

Then, I would go outside, pick it up, wipe my ass with it, clean it off and put it on the shelf to collect dust lol, that's not a game, that's torture!!!! lol