![]() The game starts in 1957 and you have 20 years (two seasons a year) to win the race. You have to keep money coming in, try to minimize accidents, keep your people happy, purchase and R&D new hardware, sechdule launches, and do well enough to keep your job. To do this, you can go about it numerous ways, with several aproaches that can be used. You play as either the US or Soviet space director with the ultimate goal of landing a man on the moon before the other nation. It recreates the space race between the US and the Soviet Untion that existed in the 50's and 60's. Released by Interplay on floppy in 1993 and then a enhanced CD-ROM version in 1994, the game was based off a board game called Liftoff! Basicaly, it's a space simulator program. One game I just recently dug out to try with DosBox is a long time personal favorite of mine - Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space. ![]() Now with DosBox (a wonderfull emulator for older PC's) many of these games can be enjoyed again on a modern system. Anyone interested should contact Fritz at this e-mail address.I've always been a huge computer gamer, starting with the C64 and the PC, and during the 'golden age' of the late 80's to early 90's there were numerous good games that were released. ![]() Note: Fritz Bonner, the game's designer, still has some copies of Liftoff!, the board game that BARIS was based on, for sale. For strategy gamers and space enthusiasts alike, this is a keeper. I bought this game when it came out in 1992, then the CD-ROM version in 1993 (which contains 600MB of rare historical footage, and is worth a find), and the game never left my hard drive since. Overall, Buzz Aldrin is an incredible experience that's also educational, but be warned that it is an *extremely difficult* game - even with the best rockets and astronauts money can buy, you will experience frequent mission failures that seem unreasonable. Do you forego the crucial test missions because you're lagging behind? Or recruit more "green" astronauts? Configure every flight in detail - from rocket types to flight plans. Do you follow history or cut your own path to glory? Make Pete Conrad's dream come true with a Large-Earth-Orbital Gemini lunar pass mission! Make von Braun's Nova pipe dream a reality! Will the United States land on the moon first? Or will the Russians continue to dominate space and plant the red flag on the moon first? The game excellently captures the feel and complexity of 1960's space programs. Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space offers twenty different approaches to the moon. You determine which space hardware to research and develop and then you actually schedule and launch individual space missions. You get to recruit and train 140 astronauts and cosmonauts and determine which ones have the "right stuff". and the U.S.S.R., and can plan and direct every conceivable space mission: sub-orbitals, orbital manned and unmanned planetary and lunar flybys LEM tests lunar passes lunar orbits and lunar landings. As Space Director of either NASA or its Russian counterpart, you have at your disposal the entire space inventories of both the U.S.A. It recreates all the excitement of every space mission using digitized footage from lift-offs, space walks, lunar landings and splashdowns. Doubtless one of the most original strategy games I've ever played, Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space is a computer simulation of man's greatest adventure, the race to the moon, based on designer Fritz Bronner's own obscure board game Lift Off!.
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