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Welcome to Play Comics, where once again, we are here looking at a video game based on a comic property and how well it represents that source material. And today I am here with somebody who is really gonna make sure that I know what's going on with Buck Rogers, because I feel like I don't. But in a weird way I do for reasons that we're gonna get into. And today I am here with Vasco Pickett, father of one of the people who works at my local comic shop. Because, I mean, I needed somebody who knew Buck Rogers and I think I got somebody good.
Let's hope so.
Well, you, you have been spoken highly of. And I don't know if it's just because your kid and they like you for some weird reason, but, you know, it's Buck Rogers. So what was it that really got you into Buck Rogers as a character?
Well, I never saw the serials until later, but when Buck Rogers came out on NBC, abc, whoever was doing it, we had just been through Star Wars. So it's like we need shows with space battles, we need lasers. All we'd had up till then was Star Trek and the closest thing to a space battle and all of them staggering from one side of the deck to the other side. None of the big action scenes in space. So when Buck Rogers came out, they initially released a two hour, I think, movie. And I ended up seeing that in the theater at a friend's birthday party. Like they dumped us kids off the movie theater for their party. So I got to see this two hour movie and space battles and like, well, it's pretty cool. I mean, as I look at it, we found the guy kind of boring. I mean, he's about as white red as you can be. Boring white suits. The bad guys, of course, were the cool ones. Scantily clad, you know, female leader of the group, really cool spaceships, very angular and sharp. And then you have the first defense force with their boring white ship. I've seen worse. But it was at least it was something. We were desperate for things that and Battlestar, you know, that was what we had for television as far as sci fi at that time hadn't started next gen yet. We were desperate to cling on to anything space.
I guess we're going to jump into the Star wars thing real early here because as I was watching a lot of this, this was like, is that a Star wars ship? Are they doing Star wars things? Did George Lucas just reskin Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon and various Japanese movies to make his Star wars epic?
You certainly can argue he reskinning things. I mean Buck Rogers, you know, he was frozen for 500 years. Kind of sounds like Futurama, doesn't it? Where Fry is frozen for umpteen. Except he's a complete moron. But the idea of being frozen and showing up later and world has changed. The thing with Buck Rogers, of course he comes forward 500 years. He's not the slightest bit concerned. He's like, what, you people forgot how to dance? Let me show you how to disco dance. Because it was pretty much a disco fuel theory show. That's what it was. He spent a lot of time with his shirt unbuttoned down to his navel so you can see his hairy jazz. It was just ridiculous. But like I say, we were desperate and I was, let's see, that came out in what, 78, I think. 78. So I would have been well 12, 13 years old. So my frame of reference was, hey, more space stuff. Cool. I gotta go buy that model of the Conan's fighter because that thing looks wicked cool. Very angular, lots of points. You know, we were like I say, other than Star Trek, Star wars wasn't a whole lot of space anything. The reruns of the old 50s and 60s space shows were just comical. I mean that's like saying I'm a serious die hard Batman fan and my favorite is Adam West. Really it was fun. But Face up until then was Lost in Space and Time Tunnel. I think those were just pick up, pick a problem every week. And not as heavy handed as Gene Roddenberry with learning a lesson. But it was like, oh yeah, there's a bad guy of the week or whatnot. Rogers kind of did the same thing, at least in season one, Season two, darker, Hawk, Hawk or Hawkman, I forget, came in and he was edgier and he had a cool shift and he was a little more violent and actual fist fights broke out occasionally. And it was, it was more exciting, although. So Gil Gerard wasn't a fan of the second season. He thought they ruined it. Which is surprising to me because as a kid I'm like hot dog. And now we're talking so clearly two different audiences.
That always amazes me. When you have something that people think has gotten better, like you're saying season two did there and then the show's just gone and, you know, kind of like the streaming shows of today, where if it doesn't take off in like the first two weeks, it's just gone forever.
I know he said they cut the budget for season two. And I know Mel Blanc stopped voicing Twiggy for whatever his name was or season two. They got some but some generic guy to go bdbd. You know, he was. I don't know if it was. I never was clear on why he left, whether he just wasn't paid, whether he had a better gig, I don't know. But the voice changed on Wiggy. A lot more space battles and a lot fewer sets being built, so. But again, like, dude, I was really watching this with space battles. You teaching Earthlings how to fight, dance, and basically have fun is not my idea of a good sci fi thing. It needs action, though. He was also. I remember something about they just let the computers fly the ships everywhere and do all the fighting and they were getting their butts whooped. He's like, oh, let me fly this thing. I know how to fly. Somehow he knew how to fly this 500 year in the future ship. And he did a great job blowing up bad guys with it. So that was, like I say, atypical for someone who's been asleep 500 years to be the instantly grab everything going on without a problem.
So was it all just the TV show and the movies for you or, like, did you get into the comics at all or check out any of the older radio serials or anything?
I had seen some of the old movie serials. Buster Crab, who also played flashboard, same guy. But those were short episodes always on the cliffhanger looked like the end of the world. And somehow they magically pulled it out at the end beginning of the next serial. I never heard any of the radio shows. The name was familiar, probably from, you know, one of my grandparents had listened to it on the radio maybe. So I knew the name, but that's about all I knew about it. So I kind of went into the movie TV series with a blank slate of what to expect. I didn't have any preconceived notions that, oh, aside from what we learned in the the movie and the intro, that he'd gone into space in this viciously space shuttle looking ship, which we were probably before your time, but the whole world was very excited about the space shuttle program. It was like, hey, that dude's in a space shuttle. Yeah, it's got a little more, more rockets on the back of it. But it was still, it was a space shuttle. We could see that kind of happening, you know. And I guess they finally launched was about 81 or 82 when the first, one first launch of the space shuttle. I mean I, I got up early to watch it on television, watch the test flights where they took it on the back of a plane and let it go and see what happen. So I was big into science and big into potential. Doc Rogers seemed to have some potential. But like I say, because of Star wars we got space battles and that's what we really wanted to see.
It's really hard to argue with having space battles though. They're just so cool.
They're cool if they're done well. I mean after Star wars there were a bunch of bad movies made of quick knock this thing off as fast as you can. The lasers don't line up with the ships, don't care. Just absurd concepts or complete rip offs of Star Wars. We had them all and I saw a few of them. I wasn't at 12. I didn't have a lot of options for going to see every single movie that just wasn't in the cards. But Buck Rogers was one of the ones. Like I say at somebody's birthday party, 86 kids dump them at the movie theater for two and a half hours and come pick them up thoroughly candied and popcorn. And we got to see, like I say, the princess who can't remember her name doesn't really matter. We weren't interested in her name with the bikini top she's wearing. It's just the way it was. But it was very disco fueled. Even him explaining them how to play music properly. So he was the expert on disco at the time.
Anybody pulling up those Ichabod Crane type stories of just not being around and then coming back. Although I guess with the nature of the show, I should call it the Captain America type story of not being around and coming back. Those are always really interesting to me. And what people see, think is important to bring to the future, like what the future people think is really cool about the past. And just everything in there with hey, here's your weird thing that you know about. Tell me about it. Because here's this weird thing I know about.
You would have thought he would have been the world's best historian. Like we don't want to send you in space, we want you to run a museum because you were there and you can Explain all this stuff. But that, that wasn't. Doesn't make for very good television anyway. Antiques Roadshow in 500 years.
I like Antiques Roadshow though, but I like Anti.
Yeah, when I was 12, I wouldn't have been interested in Antiques Roadshow so. But yeah, there was, you know, we had so many. George Hard was in some space movie I saw, I remember him, he had a cigar and they're like, you're doing smoking a cigar, don't you know it'll kill you? I'm tough. And rum, you know, they were like, oh yeah, he's tough. He's mad late. Was he though? No, Gerard, I really think. I guess disco is what they were going for. I would have been more impressed if Mark Rogers had been not so white bred, a little manlier and some faults. He's like, I hate to say Superman. Superman's always a boy scout, you know, he never does anything edgy, never doesn't. I'm a Batman fan because Batman will break a few rules here and there to get stuff done. He'll threaten some people and you'll believe him. But Superman, little white bread, super. So Buck Rogers, although he was certainly no Superman, he was very white bred and he wasn't my favorite. Didn't strike me as an action hero, you know, just not there for an action hero. But again, we were there for the space battles. So a few times he punched people and they fell over with one punch. You know, kind of situation fights. I guess Shatner probably did fight scenes better. Although he managed to get his shirt ripped in every one of those too.
So, you know, I mean, there's something to be said for having that point of view character like that. Just the person who can bring you in. It does seem a little bit weird that the entire franchise would be named and based around Buck Rogers. And then he's that point of view character to just get you to space battles, you know, he.
I never felt like he represented my point of view at all. I just. He was there as the hero technically. But really I was much more impressed with the ability to shoot down space. You know, spaceships or blow things up or just action. We wanted action in space, like Star Wars. Battlestar was pretty good at that. Although Battlestar to me, kind of at 12:11 story dragged a bit. I know they were trying to build up this big story and as big. But again, as a kid, like, yeah, get out there and shoot some people. The sidelines are cool. Go, go shoot at them and they'll shoot back. This would be cool. I don't know. And as I look at Buck Rogers now, I'm like, I'm even less impressed, I'm afraid with Gil Gerard. He was just so. Oh, Mr. Disco. It doesn't age well I guess is where it comes down to. I did see that somebody's remaking. Is it Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon? One of the two. They're gonna make a new movie out of it and I can't remember which one it was which. That'll be interesting to see what they come out with there though.
I think I've heard that about both of them. So we'll see which one comes out first.
Yes, the. Got to think that the copywriter is running out on at least one of them by now. I mean we're talking about 100 years ago. I mean that came out in the 30s, didn't it? Original radio plays. I mean that would have. We were approaching 100 years.
Yeah, that's one of the real fun things with Buck Rogers. And like the estate is, or at least has been pretty recently, like trying to hold on to the copyright, trying to make sure that people can't do things without them being involved. And like it really should be public domain by now.
Right.
And some of the old, like here's all the public domain comics that you can just go grab. Like they'll sit there on those websites and say, hi, here's everything you can get up through like whatever year it is that applies when you're looking but don't touch Buck Roger stuff because we don't want to mess with their estate.
They must have good lawyers, which is surprising. I mean Disney's, you know, you can go use Steamboat Willie now copyright free. They managed to lose that. I'm just amazed that Rogers is hanging on to theirs.
Oh, we're going to try to figure out how somebody can manage to have better lawyers than Disney while I drop some promos for a few other things.
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Those are some great things to check out, but first, let's finish up here. So, Vasco, what's bringing us here, really today is the game Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday. What gets it here on my radar is the fact that it came out for Genesis. It also came out for various computer platforms made by Strategic Simulations and published by Electronic Arts, coming out sometime in December of 1991.
Oh, wow. Okay.
This game is basically. Hi. You know that Buck Rogers tabletop rpg? Yeah. We're going to play it on computers now. And then somebody decided, yeah, you should play it on Genesis now, too.
I want to say there was some earlier versions for, like, the Atari and so forth, but. And I'm clearly older than you, we were used to when you bought an Atari cartridge. The artwork on the cartridge has nothing to do with the gameplay. Glorious pictures and down to little blocks going hither, thither and yon. Though by the time you got Sega Genesis, at least they had a little more oomph to the graphics power. But from what I saw online, it was just either a space shooter or it had. I didn't see how it had much to do with Buck Rogers, aside from we'll make more money if we put Buck Rogers name on the box.
Yeah, I mean, this one is very much. I mean, super very much. We're just going to play a tabletop rpg. It is basically Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. You know, make your character or your whole party rather go through, do your little missions and like, even at the beginning, you're just random characters in there. Eventually you can get Buck Rogers to join your party. But, yeah, I mean, he's. He's an NPC for a little bit and then he leaves. So, like, you're in the world, and I think it's cool when the entire world gets Fleshed out like that, different ways. But this one. This one is definitely made for people who are already into the franchise, I think, and not so much for people who are trying to get into it.
I mean, I don't know exactly what made the world. Buck Rogers. Buck Rogers. Aside from. He's the guy in the future. Now, aside from that, it's. Look at the neat gadgets we got now. I don't know that it was that distinct. I mean, you. From what you tell me, from what I've seen, again, you could put anybody's name on that. Oh, look, Harry Potter's now joined the party. Oh, look, Flash Gordon is now joined. So it's. Again, it was this. This will get us a little more sales. But I don't think it had much to do with the show or with the story particularly. But I did not play the. The RPG on the Genesis. I didn't get a Genesis until. I guess I got one in the 90s. But I never picked up the Flash Gordon title for it. I grew up with the. Well, I. First I'm old, and then the Atari 2600. And then I had a couple Commodores. And I think there was a Commodore game for Buck Rogers as well. But again, it was just, let's plaster this name on there. It's an ip, Sell more stuff. It could be anything. But did you enjoy playing that game? I mean, did it work for you?
I'm not a huge fan of playing Dungeons and Dragons on a console. Like, it gets weird anyway. It's just trying to use that controller when you really should be using a mouse. And like, there's just something about this one that. See, I grew up with a Genesis, so I'm used to, like, you should go read the manual. You should do all these things. This manual is. I mean, that. This manual is about as thick as some games. It's a big thing. And you go in here like, there is basically nothing in this game really telling you what to do at all. It's like I emulated it when I played it for this. And like, I. When I first went, I. I made one character, my party instead of six, because I had no idea I was supposed to make an entire party. And I realized that that's my fault. But when you're looking at things now or when you rented things from the video store and stuff, you don't always get a manual. So it's. It gets really hard to know what you're supposed to do. And this is a really good example of how things can just Go really badly if you don't have the guidance that a manual gives you.
Yeah, I mean, was it turned based? I mean, where you had to. This person does this like in Dungeons and Dragons, except in real life, it seems to flow a lot better than sitting and waiting on a computer to make its decision.
Oh, yeah. I mean, this is just straight up. Let's play. Let's play Dungeons and Dragons.
Okay.
Have some text go across the bottom of the screen. Have your movement limited by how fast your character is. That kind of thing. Like anybody who plays Dungeons and Dragons now or Pathfinder or anything like, you know exactly what to expect from this game.
It reminds me, there was a game that came out for the 2600. It was a name of it. There were four different cartridges in this series and involved going and finding this sword. It was vaguely wizards and swords and things, although with pixelization it was very vague. But the big thing was if you solved all four of them, you had a chance to win an actual sword they were giving away. But it came with this book of here's what's going on and here's what you have to do. And it was industrious. And we only ever bought the first cartridge. There were three more of these things, all these instructions about what you have to do, because in that case it was because who knew what was going on with those 8 bit graphics. Block here, block there. Oh, that's a sword. Glad you told me. It looked like a tea. But those books, games over the years, I mean, I only tried one or two of them. If you need a book to explain a game, it's not really a very good game for a computer game at least. Dungeons and Dragons.
Yeah.
You got to do your homework, you got to read, you got to. I got that. But for a computer game, it's a lot.
Yeah. The only computer game that I ever really could handle that had a big old book with it was. I think it was Tom Landry Football. I remember. Right. And the book was pretty much just a playbook and you were being the coach. So I mean, that's a little bit different.
Yeah, that's what. Yeah, I get that. That makes sense. There's some successful plays to try, or maybe they'd be successful. Yeah, that was. I mean, we used to play text based games. I had Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, text based game, which was fun to play, but he threw you into that one blind. There were no instructions. The box came with a piece of fluff button that said don't panic And a floppy disk. And I don't know if a book would have helped, but you would have had to read the book first. But studying up on Flash Gordon would have helped you in the slightest. Sound like in this game.
Yeah, I mean, the whole plot of this one is. I mean, I took very super extensive notes on the plot. You're a new party in the New Earth Organization fighting against the Russo American Mercantile. So first off, this is coming out in the 90s based on computer games that were coming out in the 80s, based on a tabletop RPG that was earlier than that. So the fact that you have Russo American anything is a bit amazing. Although they are 500 years in the future, so maybe. Maybe Cold War stuff has ended by then. Who knows? But you're this.
I guess, I don't know.
So you're this new party. When you come together, you're just people who come together. And then when you manage to not die, you're made an actual unit in the New Earth Organization Army. They send you off on some missions. You find an abandoned spacecraft, they send you off on another mission, and Buck Rogers joins your team. They send you off on another mission and you go take out that Russo American base. And then they send you on another mission and you take out the Doomsday laser. And that's the whole game.
Did they have any of the other characters from Buck Rogers from the serial or from the TV show? I mean, was it just Rogers?
It's just Rogers.
I mean, Hawk would have been really cool. And if you're not familiar with Hawk, think about Bird person and Rick and Morty, same guy.
Like they had a few people that would come out in cutscenes and like, you know, here's like army guy who's telling you what to do. That kind of deal. But pretty much you're just this new party, which makes sense for a Dungeons Dragons type game to have. Not have everything tied up in. Here's all these characters that you already know and kind of force the story to go a certain direction. Maybe not so much for hi, here's Buck Rogers and you can get into it kind of game.
Yeah, I would have thought. Well, I. Maybe they didn't have rights to all the other characters. Who knows? Maybe they just got the namesake. Is it from what you've described, it doesn't sound anything like any of the other storyline. Any other locations. Because, let's see, he was Earth Defense Force, I think was his group he was with. The Draconians were the bad guys. Whereas the old cereals I think it was some other planet, either Venetians or people. But all of it was really sort of loose. I always got the feeling that it was, at least for the TV series it was always Monster of the week or Tragedy of the week.
Yeah, this one it's. It seems weird because like, I don't know, I guess we'll just jump into the ending questions here because I think that's going to be the best way to get it. What do you think this game gets right? Looking at Buck Rogers, I mean from.
What you told me, it just seems factually correct. I guess that Rogers was there 500 years in the future. Other than that, I think you could have branded this any other game in the world. I don't, I don't know that it was particularly Roger Y. It just, it was a name that could stick on the box.
Yeah, this one, I mean that, that's really, I think the big crux of it because like it has a cool Buck Rogers he looking cover and other than that, that's about it.
Yeah, it probably did help, you know, move some units like oh, I know who Buck Rogers. Oh, I've heard the name at least. Or yeah, I watched the 70s disco fueled version of it. So why not? I. And it's just another D and D type game. Like I say, you could have put anybody in there and it probably would have played exactly the same.
I think that really hit. Normally I'd ask you like what this really gets wrong. But I think the answer for what it gets right really answers both things. Like this one could be Flash Gordon, could be Steve from space. As far as we know, it's just, it's a thing.
Except you didn't have any space battles in your game, I think.
No, that's because for once the 2600 had the superior version of a game.
Oh, that's sad. Don't get me wrong, I loved my 2600, you know, but we were playing Space Invaders and Defender on it. We weren't, you know, out for highbrow storytelling or anything else to go with it. So. Yeah, yeah, it's. Well, you know, like I said, there's been a number of things with IP branded stuff on it. Some of it works and some of it doesn't work. Sounds like a playable game at least. But it was not necessarily Buck Rogers.
If you knew somebody who was trying to get into Buck Rogers, would you give them this game at all as a bit of a primer course?
No, not in the slightest. If you want to get into Buck Rogers, you Probably ought to. I don't know about the radio programs. I never really heard them. If you could find some of the comic books, that would be probably good. And the old serial would be an excellent. At least introduce you to the characters. And then you could watch some of the 70s stuff to see how they updated it. I mean, the tech was definitely better in there than it was in the serial. But again, we. The whole thing about him being in space was what made the story. If you say we're just going to leave you on the ground the whole time, you're kind of defeating the purpose. I mean, that was even in the serials. I mean, they were cruising back and forth planet to planet. You know, things were going on. I didn't have a lot of space battles back then because I'm afraid that special effect didn't exist back then. But there were a little bit. But all the ships sounded the same as they did in Flash Gordon with that bizarre noise they made.
Even in a weird world where this actually had more Buck Rogers connection to it. Honestly, I don't think I would give this to anybody who wasn't already into it, which is fine. I mean, some games are made for people who are already into the franchise, and some games are made for ones that maybe want to get into it, or they don't have to be into it, but if they are, they'll get more out of it. This one is just one that's made for people already into Buck Rogers. But I think it is also another example of a game where the game is pretty good. I mean, as much crap as I was giving it for the game that it is, that's just because it's not the kind of game that I really enjoy for what it is. It's pretty good. It's just a good game that doesn't really teach you anything about the subject matter.
Like I say, they, you know, it helps move units if you put a recognizable IP on the COVID Other than that, it could have been some version of Dungeons and Dragons and played just as well. And you could have enjoyed it just as much. Maybe. I don't know. As a kid, maybe you were excited to finally get Buck Rogers to join your team. Maybe that meant something to you. How familiar were you with Buck Rogers when you played this game? Had you seen the shows or the serials?
I'd seen some stuff. Didn't watch much of the 70s show because the serials were a lot more easy for me to find. So I was watching those more. But I mean, honestly, most of my Buck Rogers Knowledge came from Daffy Duck being Duck Dodgers.
I wondered if you had seen that Looney Tunes or not. The 24th and a half century. Yes. And again, that doesn't really tell you a whole lot about the, the franchise either. It was for them. It was. Let's see that. That cartoon probably came out in the late forties during the golden age. No two ways about it. In fact, I think that was a Chuck Jones, if I'm not mistaken. I'm a big comic book or a cartoon fan, particularly golden age. But again, that was people who watched that before the movies, like, oh yeah, I used to watch this or I used to listen just on the radio. And those were people who listened to it first time around. You know, they weren't like going to find them and hear that. They were like, oh yeah, I used to sit around the radio and listen to this. And now we're watching this before we watch this Panther movie or whatever it's in front of. But again, even that has very little to do with this franchise. It was just a recognizable name and everybody thought was pretty fun funny.
And finally, which Muppet would give the most interesting press conference trying to convince people to buy this game?
Press conference to buy this game. Oh, your spokesperson for Buck Rogers video game, maybe Link Heartthrob from Pigs in Space.
Oh, that's a good one.
I think he is. He is that formal, pick up his butt listens to him. I think he would probably, probably be the best one to try. And it's space oriented. So there you have it.
Dyson thematic. And honestly I think that's a great pick anyway.
I can almost hear him in my head trying to sell this game. I don't do an impression of him, but I can almost hear that just working out just fine. I mean, you don't remember George Plimpton trying to sell what was it in televisions? A guy is like, why did you get this old white guy to try to sell video game systems to kids? This doesn't make a sense, but I think Link would have that same sort of I'm too old to play this game. But you'll probably enjoy.
It has been great talking to you about all of this. If people want to hear more from you, where else can they find you? Around the Internet?
Thanks. Hey, they really can. I mean, I don't really put videos or audio out. Never. It never really popped into place. So aside from calling me when your computer breaks, that's about it.
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