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Synopsis

A tie-in to the 1984 film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, you play as the impossibly cool Dr. Banzai: radical neurosurgeon, cutting-edge physicist, enemy of evil criminal mastermind Hanoi Xan, and lead guitarist for new wave sensation the Hong Kong Horsemen. (Unfortunately, you'll have to take our word for it, as the game doesn't make much use of these qualities).

Like in the wacky movie, your goal here is ultimately to defeat a potentially planet-destroying bomb planted by the Black Lectroids, inhabitants of Planet 10. Unlike the movie, you don't accomplish this by overcoming the Red Lectroids from the 8th dimension with the help of Team Banzai and the Blue Blaze Irregulars - instead, you wander through a strangely depopulated city to procure the necessary components (gasoline, sand, bauxite and "a special catalyst") to power your swing-propeller sports jet car and transmit override codes to the bomb. The game uses a simple VERB NOUN text parser and, on some platforms, illustrates the scene with static images.

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