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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension

Dec 31, 1984

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Based on the movie of the same title, in this graphical text adventure you are Buckaroo Banzai, a jack of all trades. You try to thwart the plans of your arch enemy and criminal mastermind Hanoi Xan and those of the Black Lectroids from Planet 10 who want to destroy Earth via a planet-consuming bomb.
Release Dates
1984 Full Release (North_America)
Atari 8-bit, Commodore 16, Commodore Plus/4
1985 Full Release (North_America)
Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS
1986 Full Release (Europe)
ZX Spectrum
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Wow the Apple and Atari versions are beautiful, and I love that it's deterministic/minimal RNG-based tackiness. But it still felt tedious and eventually not worth finishing. Surprisingly well-done though, typically I'm not a big post-1979 Scott Adams guy.