BUCK ROGERS: PLANET OF ZOOM (COLECOVISION CV)

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom is a sci-fi themed single-player obstacle course where the player controls Buck Rogers' spaceship and must guide him through multiple pairs of pylons throughout the game. of the ship involves side-scrolling left or right, stopping, moving forward (and faster), and moving backward/pause (and slower). Additionally, the spaceship can also fire its weapon to trigger a pair of energy bolts.

The player starts in sector 1.0 and will complete this level after successfully passing between an allotted number of pylons, shown at the top left of the screen; the first requirement is 9 pylons and will gradually increase with each new sector. In Sector 1.1., in addition to having to fulfill the pylon requirement, a group of flying saucers, ranging from 1 to 4 (per group), flies in a pattern. The player must avoid these flying saucers by moving out of their way or shooting them down. In Sector 1.3, a new type of robot spaceship (at least one) will fly erratically and attempt to crash into the player's spaceship (due to the marvel of technology of that era, enemy spaceships disappearing on one side of the screen, will appear on the other side of the screen). Later sectors will gradually introduce more difficult challenges.