Sega‘s Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom was first released into arcades in 1982, and – to play it now – you’d wonder what all the fuss was about, but this game made waves when it was first released.

It was an early, colour video game, featuring a Star Wars style “trench run” and even a mothership battle, and it dazzled young gamers back in the olden days.

Now it plays like… Well, let’s just say that Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom is not the best game in the world… but it is still important and was influential.

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