Play Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday Online – MS-DOS Game

Game Overview

At the beginning of the game the player creates a party of six characters from a choice of five classes (Rocketjock, Warrior, Medic, Rogue, and Engineer) and six races (Human, Desert Runner, Tinker, Venusian, Martian, and Mercurian). The game has five view modes: Solar System View: The map shows the positions on the inner planets and major asteroids from an "overhead" perspective. The player's spaceship can be moved around in relation to the planets. Ship-to-ship combat is started from this view. Overworld view: This is another overhead view, where the player can move the party around on the surface of a planet. Land combat can be started from this view. Adventuring view: This is a 3D view that shows the party's environment form their perspective. Land combat can be started from this view. Land Combat: This is an overhead isometric view of the area that the party is in. Individual characters, NPCs, and enemies are displayed in scale. Ship-to-Ship Combat: The player sees the enemy space ship. Controls are limited to menus at the bottom of the screen.
Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".