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

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.

Fans have ported Sierra's AGI engine to the Commodore 64, forty years on. Space Quest I now runs on 1 MHz hardware, no upgrade required. Roger Wilco started there in 1986, mop in hand, with the Arcada under attack. He needed Buckazoids, not better hardware.

My Arcade just opened preorders for the Gamestation Retro Go today: 200 arcade classics in one handheld for $199.99. Buckazoid Bill's Arcade charged one Buckazoid per game. Which classic gets your first coin?

Cloud Strife earned Gil by grinding monsters in 1997. Roger Wilco spent Buckazoids on fuel, food, and arcade games in 1991. One currency rewarded the grind. The other ran a whole galaxy.

Every hero gets a sword. Roger Wilco got a mop. He was a janitor first and a hero strictly by accident, and the galaxy still ran on Buckazoids. Gaming never topped that casting choice.

Save early, save often. That was the law of 90s PC gaming. Space Quest IV enforced it the hard way: one wrong step and Roger was dead, with the narrator delivering the eulogy. What killed your run most?

Modern games sell you coins to buy the thing, then a pass to earn the coins back. Space Quest IV just took Buckazoids. Fuel, food, arcade games, one currency, no storefront. Which modern game would be better if it ran on Buckazoids?

Credit where it is due: @BuckazoidsWorld keeps digging up the old Sierra material, the box art, the manuals, the screenshots, that prove Buckazoids were a working economy, not a gag. The lore survives because people keep the receipts.