As others have already said, the licensing issues would make it very difficult. I wouldn't expect an official re-release anytime soon. It would be my assumption, that one of the main reasons that TRS made Buck Rogers games and sub-licensed Buck Rogers to SSI to make Countdown to Doomsday & Matrix Cubed is because
Lorraine Williams owned the rights to the character. I would imagine that the 2 games wouldn't be very difficult to find if one was willing to spend some time searching.
Lorraine Williams - In control of TSR "Under Williams's direction, TSR initially maintained its leadership position in role-playing games, and solidified its expansion into other fields, such as magazines, paperback fiction, and comic books. Through her family, Williams personally held the rights to the Buck Rogers license and encouraged TSR to produce Buck Rogers games and novels. In 1988 she edited Buck Rogers: The First 60 Years in the 25th Century.[4] TSR would also publish a Buck Rogers board game, a Buck Rogers XXVC role-playing game based on the AD&D 2nd Edition rules,[8] over a dozen supplements for the role-playing game, comic books (1990–1991), a line of 11 novels and graphic novels (1989–1993), and two computer games produced by SSI (1990–1992).[6] As Williams' family owned Buck Rogers, TSR paid them royalties on the character.[6]"
[4] Williams, Lorraine Dille, ed. (1988). Buck Rogers: The First 60 Years in the 25th Century. TSR. ISBN 0-88038-604-5.
[6] Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
[8] Rausch, Allen (16 August 2004). "
Magic & Memories: The Complete History of Dungeons & Dragons—Part II". GameSpy. IGN. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
Magic & Memories: The Complete History of Dungeons & Dragons - Part II - - "Goodbye, Kevin. Hello, Buck." "The Blume family, on the other hand, were extremely unhappy with Gygax's actions. While they no longer ran the company, they still held majority ownership. They retaliated against Gary in the only way that was open to them -- they sold their stock to a woman named Lorraine Williams. Williams, the scion of the family that owned the Buck Rogers license, was a name that Gygax, many of the employees of TSR, and no small number of Dungeons & Dragons licensees and fans would come to regard with loathing. Gygax himself believed that the Blume's sale to Williams was illegal and even took them to court to block it. He lost the case, and Williams acquired the Blume's stock and absolute control of the company. It's at that point that Gary Gygax exits the story of Dungeons & Dragons. After 10 years of struggling to build up TSR and the game, he was tired of fighting and ready to move on to something new. When he realized that he wasn't going to be able to work with Williams, he asked to be bought out of his shares, which he was on December 31, 1985."
Magic & Memories: The Complete History of Dungeons & Dragons - Part III: Tyrants & Wizards "Lorraine Williams was described as having a sense of noblesse oblige. While she considered gamers and most of her workers her social inferiors, and held it as a point of pride that she had never played Dungeons & Dragons, she nonetheless did have a soft side that came out in various ways during her tenure as the head of TSR. One TSR worker whose wife was severely mentally ill was kept on the TSR payroll for years, despite his long absences while he cared for her. She also loved animals. TSR would occasionally hold a "Bring Your Pet to Work" day and gave a great deal of money to animal welfare charities. Unfortunately, that softer side wasn't on display all that often during her years at the company, and Lorraine Williams would enter the annals of Dungeons & Dragons history as one of the most reviled people ever associated with the hobby.
She certainly didn't start out that way, though. When she first started at the company, she made a series of announcements which, while rather impolitic, at least had the virtue of being bold. Bill Slaviscek described Williams' product strategy this way: "The company wasn't afraid to try new things, and when something was working, they jumped on it and tried to make it bigger." Under Williams' reign, the company launched dozens of new products, starting with the 2nd Edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons."
