The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension

First released on 31 December, 1984 for Atari 8-bit, Commodore 16, Commodore Plus/4

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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.

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Commodore Plus/4, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 16, PC DOS, Apple II, Commodore C64/128, ZX Spectrum

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Single-player

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Text

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Adventure International

Adventure International was a computer and video game publishing company. The company was created and founded by Scott Adams, the so called godfather of text based adventure games.

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