Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high.
We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable.
The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. Yet while the original has its fans, it's the Mega Drive conversion, released a year later, that is the most loved.These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. As was common at the time, Countdown presents a first-person exploration view combined with an isometric display for combat. (better known as SSI), the game was based on TSR's Buck Rogers XXVC table-top role-playing game, itself a blending together of the famous sci-fi character with the Dungeons & Dragons second edition ruleset. 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. Eurogamer looks back to Buck Rogers: Countdown To Doomsday:ģ0 years on, the story behind one of the Mega Drive's best RPGs
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