Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (Arcade)

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
Also known as: Zoom 909 (JP) Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Platform: Arcade (Sega VCO Object hardware) Released internationally: December 1982 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text.

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	Buck Rogers
[<< 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 >>

(Source: Original TCRF research)

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

(Source: Original TCRF research)