{"id":1072,"date":"2014-09-01T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T14:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2014-09-04T09:31:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:31:16","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-space-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1072\/retro-scan-of-the-week-space-bucks","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Space Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/spacebucks_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/spacebucks_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra Space Bucks advertisement - 1995\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>So now we&#8217;ve entered the 3D font era.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never played Sierra&#8217;s <em>Space Bucks<\/em>, but it looks like a fascinating strategy game.  I was a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SunDog:_Frozen_Legacy\" target=\"_blank\">SunDog: Frozen Legacy<\/a> on the Atari ST, so I&#8217;m a sucker for any game that shows the inside of your spaceship from a top-down view (even if only in a non-functional splash screen).  Has anyone out there played it?<\/p>\n<p>(As an aside, when I started this blog in 2005, I could just say &#8220;I&#8217;ve never played this game, does anyone out there know anything about it?&#8221; And get away with it.  That&#8217;s because very little game info was out there; Wikipedia had very few video and computer game entries &#8212; especially obscure ones &#8212; and MobyGames was incomplete.  Now I have no excuse for not looking it up myself.  And what do you know: here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Bucks\">Wikipedia entry on Space Bucks<\/a>, first created in 2012.)<\/p>\n<p>I have this feeling that most Windows games from the 1995 era slipped through the cracks and were mostly forgotten.  It&#8217;s my impression that not many people played early games created for Windows 95 and late-period games made for Windows 3.11.  Maybe it&#8217;s because the IBM PC world was in the middle of a big transition from MS-DOS \/ Win 3.11 to Windows 95.  I remember still buying MS-DOS games well into 1997, for example.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Computer Gaming World &#8211; September 1995, p.55]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What was the earliest game you bought that ran exclusively on Windows 95\/98?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now we&#8217;ve entered the 3D font era. I&#8217;ve never played Sierra&#8217;s Space Bucks, but it looks like a fascinating strategy game. I was a big fan of SunDog: Frozen Legacy on the Atari ST, so I&#8217;m a sucker for any game that shows the inside of your spaceship from a top-down view (even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,27,26,9,10],"tags":[151,150,418,631,649,60,878,879,571,855],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-151","tag-advertisement","tag-computer-games","tag-computer-gaming-world","tag-ms-dos","tag-retro-scan","tag-sierra","tag-space-bucks","tag-space-games","tag-windows-95"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}