Buck Rogers XXVc: Matrix Cubed

General info

Not Amiga Original

Relationships

WHDLoad

No WHDLoad installer.

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2,161

Genre

Conversions

PC (DOS)

UNRELEASED

ECS / OCS

Version info

Yes
Max 1, Sim 1

Features

Credits

Hard Disk Installer

Unknown

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
1992
Buck Rogers XXVc: Matrix Cubed
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
2
Unknown

Notes

[1] Reviewed in an issue of German magazines Amiga Joker and PowerPlay.

[2] Amiga version referred to in advertisements for game.

[3] "The Amiga version was apparently finished but never actually published. I reached out to programmer Kerry Bonin, who reported there was a serious bug in the Amiga version which caused the whole computer to crash. After weeks of hunting out the bug, management ordered the programmers to just let it go, since by then there was no market to publish a 16 bit version anyway." [Source: The Genesis Temple]

[4] "Heh... to be honest, I'm having a hard time remembering Amiga details. I was the producer in charge of Matrix Cubed, but the emphasis (and money) were always strongly fixed on the PC versions; Amiga conversions received only a fraction of the budget, because they got an even smaller fraction of the sales. Therefore, producers oversaw Amiga conversions at the same time we began new PC product. (In my case, I believe I was starting Stronghold at the time.) Anyway, though I remember an Amiga version of Matrix Cubed on the schedule, I'm almost certain it was never completed. SSI was heading into deep financial troubles at the time, trying unsuccessfully) to avoid a huge layoff, and projects were being axed right and left. I don't remember exactly, but it seems likely that Matrix Amiga was zapped for that reason." [Source: Producer Rhonda Van via Email]

[5] Not to be confused with fake, hacked version (BUCK ROGERS II: THE MARSIAN ENCOUNTER).

Conversion Notes

Screen info

ECS / OCS
Box: ECS / OCS
Disk: ECS / OCS
Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

U.S. Advert (CGW 91 2/1992, Page 67)

ECS no. 2

German Review (ASM 4/1992, Page 40) [showing the Amiga version as planned]

ECS no. 3

German Review (PowerPlay 6/1992, Page 126)

Manual info

ECS / OCS

No manuals found.

ECS / OCS

No cheats found.

Conversion info

PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

EGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Conversion PC (DOS)

VGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Joker
May 1992
64%
Joachim Nettelbeck
2

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Power
10 (Feb 1992)
Preview
2
Zero
28 (Feb 1992)
Preview
1

ECS / OCS

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