Buck Rogers Planet Of Zoom

Manufacturer: Sega
Year: 1982
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
19-inch Wells-Gardner

Conversion Class: unique
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way with button [Fire]
Buttons: 2 [Slow Down|Speed Up]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Buck Rogers Planet Of Zoom Description

A remote-controlled spacecraft is guided from a behind-the-ship perspective. Enemy ships must be shot down while you avoid obstacles in the ship's path. Two buttons control the speed of the ship.

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Game Play

Behind the ship view. Quite repetitive which makes replay value very low. The game let you continue indefinitely so the high score table is virtually meaningless.

CAPS/VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,492 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,731 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 61,187 machines (3,630 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 15 known instances of this machine owned by Buck Rogers Planet Of Zoom collectors. Of these, 10 of them are original dedicated machines, and 5 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

This game ranks a 9 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Wanted - No members have added this machine to their wish list. Please note that many collectors are not members or do not list their desires here, and it is likely that a number of collectors might purchase this machine if offered it at the right price. There are 2 VAPS members looking for Buck Rogers Planet Of Zoom board sets.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector.
In particular, since VAPS started out focusing on videogames, statistics for other types of machines should not (yet) be an indication of scarcity.
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Manuals

Owners Manual 47 Pages, 8510 KB File.

Foto-Finder™

The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 131; Color photo;

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