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Back to the Future Day. Let me tell you about the hardest-working currency in time travel. In 1991, Roger Wilco crossed centuries with a pocket full of Buckazoids, and the money worked in every era he landed in. A thread on the Buckazoid economy. 🧵 $BUCKAZOIDS

The results are in, all one vote of them. Sludge Vohaul wins scariest Space Quest villain with 100 percent of the vote. Halloween is three days out, and Vohaul is still the villain who came back as a virus in the game that made Buckazoids the galactic currency.

Halloween is three days out, so let us settle it properly. Which retro villain actually scared you? Not jump scares. The ones that lived in your head rent free.

Nintendo aired a 15 minute Indie World showcase this morning for Switch 2. Small teams, strange ideas, no publisher safety net. Sound familiar? Two guys from Andromeda built a galactic economy on Buckazoids the same way. Which indie game should get a Buckazoid economy next?

Four time machines, one ticket. Roger Wilco's time pod ran on Buckazoids and crossed centuries without a manual. Which one are you climbing into?

Space Quest III trivia, no search engines. Roger escapes a garbage freighter in a derelict ship he repairs himself. Name the ship. Bonus point if you remember how many Buckazoids he found in the pilot's seat.

Fallout runs on bottle caps. Skyrim runs on Septims. Final Fantasy runs on Gil. Space Quest ran on Buckazoids in 1991. Which fictional currency would you actually trust with your wallet?

LucasArts had a purple tentacle plotting world domination in Day of the Tentacle. Sierra had a janitor paying for starship fuel in Buckazoids. One studio wrote the funniest villain in gaming. The other built the economy. I know which galaxy I would rather live in.

Sound check for the 90s PC crowd. Space Quest IV on a PC speaker was bleeps and bravery. On a Sound Blaster it was a different galaxy. Which sound card was in your machine?

SpaceX static-fired the Flight 15 booster on Sunday, all 33 engines, ahead of November's first double catch: booster and Ship, both grabbed by the tower. Roger Wilco paid his fares in Buckazoids and never got a rocket back. Reusability is the upgrade he deserved.

Chuck E. Cheese tokens were the closest real life ever got to Buckazoids. A coin that only worked inside one building, worthless the second you walked out, and kids treated it like gold anyway. Sierra just gave that token a galaxy to spend it in.

Sierra's heroes were a janitor, a king, a lounge lizard, and a cop. If you had to hand your Buckazoids to one of them for safekeeping, who gets the wallet?

Nintendo added Avenging Spirit, Mole Mania, and Pinball: Revenge of the Gator to Switch Online today. Three Game Boy games with save states and rewind. Roger Wilco got neither. His Buckazoids bought fuel and gear, not a second chance. Which are you playing first?

Tonight at 9:45, a Falcon 9 lifts off from Vandenberg with 27 Starlink satellites. It will be California's 72nd launch of the year, a new record. Roger Wilco paid for his launches in Buckazoids. The rest of us still watch from the ground.

Halloween is five days out, so let us settle it. Sludge Vohaul tried to conquer the galaxy with cloned insurance salesmen, then returned as a virus in the game that made Buckazoids the galactic currency. Who is the scariest Space Quest villain?

Space Quest IV's Galaxy Galleria had a Skate-O-Rama in the middle and a ring of shops around it: Monolith Burger, Radio Shock, Big and Tall, and Buckazoid Bill's Arcade and Sushi Bar. If that mall opened in your town, which shop are you hitting first?

LucasArts gave time travel three seats in 1993: Bernard in the present, Hoagie 200 years back, Laverne 200 years forward, all in Chron-o-Johns. Roger Wilco rode solo in a time pod, fare paid in Buckazoids. LucasArts had the better plumbing. Sierra had the better currency.