1991 video-game with BTC logo in it

[CryptoDildo]

Hey guys, I just found out this interesting thread on reddit :

In the 1991 video game Space Quest IV, the in-game currency, known as Buckazoids, had the Bitcoin BTC logo.

In a way, before Bitcoin there were Buckazoids.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2025/03/30/lvQ23.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1jlcfye/btc_in_a_game_from_1991/?share_id=s30czhuqUf5XbNNhyTKyK&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
https://medium.com/@viam_/the-mystery-surrounding-bitcoins-creator-may-soon-be-solved-c7e110ed31d4

[Churchillvv]

I think it's a mere coincidence that the bitcoin logo is also found in that game even though guys on Reddit are trying to figure out some theories that will link bitcoin to the game yet I think it's all a coincidence that Satoshi chose that to be the bitcoin logo.

And if we remember the original logo of bitcoin was just a gold Coin with BC as the logo then changed to the popular logo so that only shows it had nothing to do with the game.

[Darker45]

Bitcoin's logo isn't that special and unique, so it wouldn't be surprising if any similar logo was used before. Well, BTC isn't Bitcoin's logo strictly speaking. BTC is the sign of Bitcoin's currency which happens to be called Bitcoin as well.

Anyway, with our tradition of making currency signs by simply taking the first letter of the currency in uppercase and put a line or lines across it, it wouldn't be a surprise if an in-game currency called Buckazoids would have BTC as its currency sign as well.

[3793aa]

I went to learn more about this game in detail. The development team of this game includes Hal Finney, who we all know is the first person in the world to receive Bitcoin. If it were you, would you transfer money to your own wallet or to someone else during testing? An early builder, the first person in the world to have received a Bitcoin transfer, a person who left this beautiful world after the last appearance of Satoshi Nakamoto due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, indirectly created a galactic universe token buckazoids and included the BTC logo that has been used ever since.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

In the 1991 video game Space Quest IV, the in-game currency, known as Buckazoids, had the Bitcoin BTC logo.

It looks similar to Bitcoin logo but the screenshot is blurry and you can not conclude that a man designed Bitcoin logo knew about this one and stole this icon idea.

The designer is bitboy.
New icon/ logo
More Bitcoin logos, buttons, and also some other graphics
Bitcoin history book. You can read history of Bitcoin logo at pages 62 and 74.

[coolcoinz]

This was a pretty obvious choice if they wanted to make some kind of bucka dollars in the game. They took the S from the dollar sign and switched it with a B. It's also how the bitcoin logo was made.

It's just a letter and two lines. Sooner or later somebody will come up with these simple ideas. Just compare different existing currency symbols, like Yen and Yuan, that are both ¥. Why? Because they both start with Y. Obviously bitcoin and other currencies starting with B might have similar or the same symbol, which you can observe with Thai baht ฿. I suspect the creator of the Bitcoin logo did not want it to be the same as any existing currency, which is why he used two vertical lines ₿

[uchegod-21]

Bitcoin's logo isn't that special and unique, so it wouldn't be surprising if any similar logo was used before. Well, BTC isn't Bitcoin's logo strictly speaking. BTC is the sign of Bitcoin's currency which happens to be called Bitcoin as well.

Anyway, with our tradition of making currency signs by simply taking the first letter of the currency in uppercase and put a line or lines across it, it wouldn't be a surprise if an in-game currency called Buckazoids would have BTC as its currency sign as well.

Yea, I agree that BTC isn't that kind of a unique symbol and neither is it patented. So, there won't be any troubles at all. Some years ago, I stumbled on the thread discussing bitcoins logo. And I think that it wasn't a creation of Satoshi. Besides, bitcoin is a decentralised currency, so it has made the symbol so relevant and 100% linked with bitcoin.

[PrivacyG]

For a weird reason I find it very enraging and uncomfortable seeing the Bitcoin symbol next to a rocket typically used in a Shitcoin promotion.  About the 1991 logo, OP I just think you are thinking about the situation way too deep.  I truly believe this was simply a coincidence.  Somebody somewhere drew a doodle maybe years ago that looked like something I or you drew years ago.  That does not mean we time traveled or the first person who drew it was a genius.  It is simply a coincidence.

Bitcoin is pretty much the Dollar sign but with a B instead of an S.  It is not that special to be surprised that somebody used it in the past.

[Reatim]

Hey guys, I just found out this interesting thread on reddit :

In the 1991 video game Space Quest IV, the in-game currency, known as Buckazoids, had the Bitcoin BTC logo.

In a way, before Bitcoin there were Buckazoids.

i wouldn’t say that’s the bitcoin logo

that would be a bit of a reach i mean the BTC logo doesn’t look exactly like that it only has a BTC on the side which makes sense since the currency is buckazoids and since buckazoids came first maybe it’s buckazoids logo not bitcoin lol

[Baofeng]

For a weird reason I find it very enraging and uncomfortable seeing the Bitcoin symbol next to a rocket typically used in a Shitcoin promotion.  About the 1991 logo, OP I just think you are thinking about the situation way too deep.  I truly believe this was simply a coincidence.  Somebody somewhere drew a doodle maybe years ago that looked like something I or you drew years ago.  That does not mean we time traveled or the first person who drew it was a genius.  It is simply a coincidence.

Bitcoin is pretty much the Dollar sign but with a B instead of an S.  It is not that special to be surprised that somebody used it in the past.

Yes, we can even say that the Bitcoin BTC logo stole or copy the Thai Baht ฿ symbol, the official currency of Thailand.

So I don't know what people find it interesting, there are a lot of common symbols, sign around us that are very similar, years or decades or even centuries apart. But it doesn't mean that they are related or somewhat travel in the future or whatever we think on how our symbol was created.

[tread93]

Hey guys, I just found out this interesting thread on reddit :

In the 1991 video game Space Quest IV, the in-game currency, known as Buckazoids, had the Bitcoin BTC logo.

In a way, before Bitcoin there were Buckazoids.



https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1jlcfye/btc_in_a_game_from_1991/?share_id=s30czhuqUf5XbNNhyTKyK&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
https://medium.com/@viam_/the-mystery-surrounding-bitcoins-creator-may-soon-be-solved-c7e110ed31d4

This is actually pretty crazy and cool at the same time. Can you imagine if Satoshi really just copied this old game logo for the in game currency? I mean I'd say the odds seem good. Great catch here OP that is a good little nugget right there. Could Satoshi have played a role in the creation of this game you think 🤔?

[Dave1]

Hey guys, I just found out this interesting thread on reddit :

In the 1991 video game Space Quest IV, the in-game currency, known as Buckazoids, had the Bitcoin BTC logo.

In a way, before Bitcoin there were Buckazoids.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1jlcfye/btc_in_a_game_from_1991/?share_id=s30czhuqUf5XbNNhyTKyK&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1
https://medium.com/@viam_/the-mystery-surrounding-bitcoins-creator-may-soon-be-solved-c7e110ed31d4

This is actually pretty crazy and cool at the same time. Can you imagine if Satoshi really just copied this old game logo for the in game currency? I mean I'd say the odds seem good. Great catch here OP that is a good little nugget right there. Could Satoshi have played a role in the creation of this game you think 🤔?

Satoshi didn't create the Bitcoin Logo or his design didn't resonate with a B and a C.

So I doubt that him or the designer bitboy has anything to do with this game in early 1990's. Most likely the creation was just so simple, inspired by just letter B with slash on it. I don't understand why relate anything in the past here from Satoshi to the logo itself when everything is written already in the community.

[Crypt0Gore]

You got me excited for a sec , until I see the logo.

Sigh, its not even close to Bitcoin Logo, yes it has a alphabet B but that's it, B represents so many names this days and I am sure that's because the game name starts with B.

Sorry, this is not impressive in any way.

[apogio]

Couldn't it be that Satoshi was inspired by this symbol, or even more possibly, that this symbol is nothing more than the dollar symbol with a B instead of S? It's a super common symbol, but if Satoshi played this game, it could no be a coincidence as well. It's just not very important, meaning it won't lead us to a significant acknowledgement. Good catch though to whoever found it.

[pawanjain]

I went to learn more about this game in detail. The development team of this game includes Hal Finney, who we all know is the first person in the world to receive Bitcoin. If it were you, would you transfer money to your own wallet or to someone else during testing? An early builder, the first person in the world to have received a Bitcoin transfer, a person who left this beautiful world after the last appearance of Satoshi Nakamoto due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, indirectly created a galactic universe token buckazoids and included the BTC logo that has been used ever since.

Are you sure of that because I just did a little search and couldn't find any link between Hal Finney and this game.
If you do think there's a link then provide the source of that information.

I think it's just a mere coincidence that the logo is kinda matching with that bitcoin is currently portrayed.
In fact, the bitcoin logo as we have today is not even an official logo of bitcoin and is just how the community has portrayed it.

[davis196]

I don't believe that the guy, who made the Bitcoin sign(or Bitcoin logo) was inspired by this game. Thumbs up to the guy on Reddit, who found out about this coincidence. He might get the "NERD of the year" award. Imagine Bitcoin being named "Buckcoin" or "Bitbuck". That would have been hilarious.
On which platform is this game available on? Nintendo? Sega Mega Drive? Atari? Maybe we could find the ROM file of this game and play it on a emulator like RetroArch. I have big nostalgia for old school video games from the late 80s/early 90s.

[jcojci]

Yup, we don't know anything but maybe that guy is part of Bitcoin project with Satoshi and else. But if Bitcoin being named "Buckcoin" or "Bitbuck", I wonder if that will become popular like what Bitcoin got.

All things will not be the same as today.

But I found this from Wikipedia:

The game was released originally on floppy disks in March 1991, and later released on CD-ROM in December 1992 with full speech support; an Atari ST version was announced via Sierra Online's magazine, Sierra News Magazine, but was later canceled.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Quest_IV

Floppy Disk? Hmm, that was very old because floppy disk is one media to save data at that time. But for kids in that year feels good played that games.

[Kelward]

I think it's a mere coincidence that the bitcoin logo is also found in that game even though guys on Reddit are trying to figure out some theories that will link bitcoin to the game yet I think it's all a coincidence that Satoshi chose that to be the bitcoin logo.

And if we remember the original logo of bitcoin was just a gold Coin with BC as the logo then changed to the popular logo so that only shows it had nothing to do with the game.

With the fact that you stated that the first Bitcoin logo had BC inscribed in it shows that the similarly between the present Logo and that of the game is mere coincidence. Coincidences happens in every aspects of life so we can't conclude that everything that looks alike must have something in common. Even if by any chance Satoshi, were to copy the new design from the game, it doesn't proof that Satoshi, had anything to do with the game coin Logo. We're making a big deal of this comparison because of the hidden identity of who the real Satoshi, is.

[Die_empty]

This is actually pretty crazy and cool at the same time. Can you imagine if Satoshi really just copied this old game logo for the in game currency? I mean I'd say the odds seem good. Great catch here OP that is a good little nugget right there. Could Satoshi have played a role in the creation of this game you think 🤔?

It was not Satoshi who designed the Bitcoin Logo. I think it was a user called bitboy that came up with the logo designed. I see this similarity as a coincidence because I have seen many unrelated artworks looking very similar. Sometimes people get the same inspiration, and you might conclude that they copied each other. We might also reduce that the designer have seen the game or played it.

[alani123]

Interesting but not significant.

It's a common motif to see lines added on a letter to symbolize currency. It has been like this for ages. So adding B on a coin's symbol could indeed be an inspiration for what BTC became, but it doesn't really mean much.

Afterall, before BTC had its own symbol in unicode there were multiple symbols that were similar already. For instance, look how similar the Thai Baht symbol looks: ฿

This was a stable symbolism for this coin years before BTC became a thing too. So does it mean anything? Most probably not. Even if there's a connection just by means of inspiration, it's just a symbol and doesn't contribute anything to the core idea.