Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (Arcade)

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom is a game based on licensed from the hit franchise! See all of your favorite characters...somewhere else! It does have some pretty nice scaling effects for 1982, though.

Developer Credits#

This message is found unencrypted at the very start of the main program ROM. Open cpu-ic3 (Buck Rogers) or epr-5217b.cpu-ic3 (Zoom 909) to read it; MAME's memory viewer displays the decrypted code, rendering this text unreadable.

[<< ZOOM-909 >>]
SEGA ENTERPRISES R&D DEPERTMENT
PROGRM BY HIDEKI,ISHIKAWA
SECULITY BY MASATOSHI,MIZUNAGA
TEL JAPAN 03-742-7311 R/D
03,DECEMBER,1982
<< DON'T COPY >>

[<< ZOOM-909 >>]
SEGA ENTERPRISES R&D DEPERTMENT
PROGRM BY HIDEKI,ISHIKAWA
SECULITY BY MASATOSHI,MIZUNAGA
TEL JAPAN 03-742-7311 R/D
21,DECEMBER,1982
<< DON'T COPY >>

Filler Text#

Starting at 10E8 in the last graphics chip is a fragmented inventory of capacitors(?(!)) which might have been used on the game's board.

                               LYESTER FILMS
-95528 152-
                      UM,47MF,16WVS
-95702 152
         2-0011 " 0.15MF,50WV,FIL
-95914 153-0007 " SOLID
         0-0174 " 1000MF,25WV (MA 
-96005 150-0098 " 10000MF,
          -0017 " 0.33MF,100WV,POL
                " MP TYPE,3.5MF+0.5MF,
                " 0.1MF,50WV,POLYESTER
-96297 151-0081 " 0.0033M
-96410 153-0006 " SOLID TAN
                              (NICHICON 35-TN
        52-0080 " 0.47MF
            057 " SOLID TAN