darthkur Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 (edited) You are Buck Rogers, savior of mankind and all around swell guy. You find yourself, yet again, put to the test, fighting the forces of evil on the legendary Planet of Zoom. You thought Ming the Merciless was bad, well these guys are not intending to give you a break whatsoever. You'll have to run the gauntlet of electrified and armed electron posts, skirmish with hordes of alien saucers and space hoppers. Then you must blast into outer space to face more dreaded saucers and finally the massive Mother Ship. Will you remain the hero of the universe and paragon of morality and virtue or will you let mankind down? It's all up to you. Emulators are fine as is whatever controller you feel the most comfortable with. Screenshots are great but not mandatory. Settings:Level 1 (Blue). (default) Contest ends on: 2-16-09 at 1:00am EST. Final High Scores: 1st: bohoki - 237,973 2nd: Cafeman - 179,391 3rd: darthkur - 125,851 4th: LaserHawk - 124,145 5th: doctorclu - 106,077 6th: roadrunner - 78,170 7th: BydoEmpire - 26,983 Final Standings for Season 1: 1st - darthkur (147) (4) 2nd - Doctorclu (134) (4) 3rd - Cafeman (68) (2) 4th - Bydoempire (57) 5th - Mike5200 (56) 6th - bohoki (54) (2) 7th - Laserhawk (47) (2) 7th - Shannon (47) 8th - Atari5200 (38) (1) 9th - phuzaxeman (22) (2) 10th - chuckwalla (21) 11th - midnight8 (13) 12th - Hex6500 (10) 12th - Lord Thag (10) 12th - midnight magicman (10) 12th - shadow460 (10) 13th - Phantom (9) 14th - JetSet ( 8 ) 15th - RXD (7) 16th - roadrunner (6) 17th - Goochman (4) Numbers in RED are accumulated points. Numbers in BLUE are number of rounds won. Link to the official manual: Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom Manual Edited February 16, 2009 by darthkur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 It's a pretty decent port. I played a couple of games via emu: 26,983. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaserHawk Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 LaserHawk zaps this many number of Roswell dinner plate aliens..... 124,145 LaserHawk will return soon to smash more Roswell Space Dishes...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 (edited) wow finally a game that allows my home made joystick to shine 170850 and that was just my first game them freakin white squid things keep kamikazing into me wow just tried this arcade version and wow it whipped my ass hard its so different the 5200 is really lame just 3 levels of planetary pillar run and then a space run the arcade goes trench,space,then pillar level and the space level with the mother ship is cool cause you have to blast off each of the 4 engines and they come flying at you so once again a home version that is just a shell of its arcade glory geez what did they do just steal beamriders background and star treks level screens Edited February 4, 2009 by bohoki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 125,851 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 (edited) 179,391. I played on Atari800win. I have never really liked this version of Buck Rogers. It is choppy, colorless and pretty much without strategy. Just shoot and don't hit stuff. Also, there is no reason to fly low - it uses up more fuel and makes you much more vulnerable to ships flying past you. Except for level 1 where for some reason you get points for flying low, always fly at the top height. Don't feel you have to fly inside all the posts either - the level quota is hit by posts OR by shooting ships, so its not worth risking a collision by flying crazy and trying to get inside posts. I laughed at the description of the mother ship in the game manual - it is hardly difficult to kill it. I do think the game looks better on the real system than on an emulator though. Edited February 9, 2009 by Cafeman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 (edited) I also played Buck Rogers: Planet Of Zoom on the Atari800win. It took me awhile to figure out how to load up and detach the games, and select the right cartridge one chip 16kb or two chip 16kb. My best high score so far- 78,170 Edited February 9, 2009 by roadrunner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 When's the new season of the 5200 HSC start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 When's the new season of the 5200 HSC start? This coming Monday we start glorious and wonderful ( I hope ) second season. So on the 16th everyone's accumulated scores are reset at zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 When's the new season of the 5200 HSC start? This coming Monday we start glorious and wonderful ( I hope ) second season. So on the 16th everyone's accumulated scores are reset at zero. Is the new season of 5200 HSC going to have the same 2-week duration and biweekly vote-for-next game setup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 When's the new season of the 5200 HSC start? This coming Monday we start glorious and wonderful ( I hope ) second season. So on the 16th everyone's accumulated scores are reset at zero. Is the new season of 5200 HSC going to have the same 2-week duration and biweekly vote-for-next game setup? Of coarse. I heartily believe in the old adage "if it's not broke then don't fix it". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 wow it turns into a real shipstorm after level 3 it took me like 37 games to get this score i think it may be easier on the 5200 than the emulator but i like my game pad and autofire it was really weird once i died on i think level 4.2 and while i was still dying it ended the level with still a few saucers left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 106,077 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 That's it for this round and season. Congratulations to bohoki for his impressive winning score. I really hope everyone had a great time. Let's make it twice as fun for season 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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