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I was surfing around ¨home of the underdogs¨ one day and came across a game called...

¨Buzz Aldrins Race Into Space¨

I had never heard of the man or the mission, [:D][:D]

but decided to check it out anyways. What I found was a very addicting strategy game on the Race between the Soviet Union and United States to land a man on the Moon and return him to the Earth alive first.

Wonderful concept and a really first rate game despite its age.

Matrix Games like doing remakes and bringing old games up to modern specs and redoing this game should be one a developer should seriously consider.

Ahh yes, I should add the copyright to this game is now the game designers and he has given permission for anyone to download the game and play it, as long as it isn´t sold.

So someone get on the phone and start tossing ideas around for a remake...please. [&o]

I can never get these DOS games to run but I have often thought a game based on the space race would be good and I would certainly join you in suggesting Matrix take a look.

Somthing like VGA planets hosted 11 player multiplayer would be great. Im still looking for a sequel, VGA planets 4.0 was not so good.

Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space is now available in a proper Windows freeware version on sourceforge, so you don't need to go the ILLEGAL way.

Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space is now available in a proper freeware version on sourceforge, so you don't need to go the ILLEGAL way.

How can there be an ¨ILLEGAL¨ way terminus when the person who owns the copyright has given permission to host it and download it as long as it isn´t sold?[&:]

Punk reaper there is a Windows CD ROM version for download, maybe it will work on your system.

I can never get these DOS games to run but I have often thought a game based on the space race would be good and I would certainly join you in suggesting Matrix take a look.

This game works on WindowsXP reaper. I just checked the specs.

The freeware version works 100% flawlessly on WinXp. Zero problems.

Someone made a video of their soviet landing on the moon on youtube.

Oh great Russia we have landed!

I step on the new world of mankind, a world of communist.

[X(]



[:D]

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3J9Gr4uLc

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ORIGINAL: Ike99

Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space is now available in a proper freeware version on sourceforge, so you don't need to go the ILLEGAL way.

How can there be an ¨ILLEGAL¨ way terminus when the person who owns the copyright has given permission to host it and download it as long as it isn´t sold?[&:]

Punk reaper there is a Windows CD ROM version for download, maybe it will work on your system.

I was wondering how Terminus came to that conclusion too. There's no difference.

It makes me sad that you had never heard of Buzz Aldrin...

The sourceforge version is nice, runs quite well on Windows XP. I am very happy that old copyrights are getting loosed... Home of the Underdogs has been keep some of the best abandonware alive. Some of the greatest ideas came out of that silver age of PC gaming.

SoM

I was wondering how Terminus came to that conclusion too. There's no difference.

I´m thinking many people have a predjudice when they hear ¨home of the underdogs¨ or other such sites believing the games posted there are automatic pirated. That´s what I am guessing. I don´t know.

I would say to anyone download the game from Sourceforce as Terminus said though as it seems the game maker is there and improved some things on it.

It seems the forum is active. Amazing for a 15 year old PC game.

mkmccarty@raceintospace.org There you go Matrix, the developers email. (Hint) (Hint)

I agree this game and concept is very nice, I think Matrix should email the author and do a proper remake for this game and bring it up to modern standards.  Even after so many years this game is still solid.

Can you shoot at a fat little Krushchev from space with a lazagun?  Pew pew!![:D]

ORIGINAL: Ike99

I´m thinking many people have a predjudice when they hear ¨home of the underdogs¨ or other such sites believing the games posted there are automatic pirated. That´s what I am guessing. I don´t know.

I know. Home of the Underdogs hosts games that they consider as abandonware, and I believe that counts games like Panzer General, Battle Isle and Steel Panthers. If copyright owner of the game or its representative demands Underdogs to remove game, Underdogs does so. I guess many similar sites act like that, but there are so many of them and new ones popping up, that if game you're looking for is removed from one site, it's likely on some other.

It actually started off as a board game, which can still be acquired directly from the designer, Fritz Bronner.  Here's my review of the board game:
 
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/206796

It actually started off as a board game, which can still be acquired directly from the designer, Fritz Bronner. Here's my review of the board game:

I don´t know how frustrating the board game is as you write in your review Rainbow but I can certainly say the PC version is very frustrating.

Especially as your capsule burns up in re-entry along with crew (-10 prestige, capsule safety 6)and the Soviets jump way ahead of you. [:@][:@][:@]

I failed many a mission in Liftoff!, and the worst is when I have a series of failures which throws off all my plans for years.  But I also found, the board game at any rate, that catching up just means taking a few more chances.  There is also a built in mechanism with the card draws that tends to even out income over time, so that there isn't a runaway winner.

I would like to see a computer version of the old Avalon Hill game Up Front or something similar.