It's 5,000 BC and the Dark Comet looms once again over an anxious planet Earth. Five thousand years ago when the comet visited a terrible devastation of the planet, a few survivors were able to save the Earth from complete destruction by using the awesome Power of Aura. The ancients stored the power into a star-shaped stone, and then broke the stone into five parts. Each part was then buried along with a riddle.
Countdown to Doomsday is a detailed computer role-playing game based on TSR's new Buck Rogers XXV role-playing system, and uses a specially enhanced version of SSI's award-winning AD&D computer fantasy role-playing system.
Only the fearless and the brave dare enter the... Fortress of the Witch King
For once you enter you are committed to the task of finding and slaying the Witch King and freeing the inhabitants of the land. Treasures and riches are yours if you triumph.
Nobody knows who built the great underground labyrinth called Telengard. Some say that the souls that perish there feed some unspeakable demon. Others say that it is a testing ground for wizards and warriors. Even the most seasoned of fighters sometimes do not return from the nethermost levels of the dungeon. But, like gamblers, even the most successful of adventurers return again and again down into the circular stairways and tomblike corridors of Telengard, risking their very lives for gold, treasure and magical powers.