Released as part of its Gold Box series by Strategic Simulations Inc. Because we had Buck Rogers: Countdown To Doomsday, a sci-fi RPG the likes of which never again appeared on the Sega console.Ĭountdown To Doomsday began life in 1990 as a PC, Commodore 64 and Amiga game. Then, for a brief period in the early 90s, it didn't matter. True, there were Mega Drive RPGs, but none with quite the epic feel and expanse of their Nintendo peers. But there was one thing we didn't have: the sprawling RPGs of the Nintendo console, such as The Secret Of Mana, Final Fantasy and The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past. After all, we had amazing platform games. Mega Drive owners didn't often glance enviously at their Super Nintendo friends.
