Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure Episode 1

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79K plays 1992 #Platform

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure: Forbidden Planet is a video game programmed by Todd Replogle and published by Apogee Software. It is a two-dimensional side-scrolling platform game. The game was released in mid March 1992 for MS-DOS compatible systems.

From Wikipedia's article Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

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Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

3.5 Good job

Players 79 · 126 votes

No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.

Review scorecard

  1. Graphics 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  2. Sound 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  3. Control 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  4. Fun Factor 3.5 out of 5 Overall fallback

Overall fallback: Players 79 · 126 votes. The same 79/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.

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Key wordsplayableaddictive

What the critics said

  • Computer Gaming World stated that Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure was "especially playable and extremely addicting", and that fans of Commander Keen and side-scrolling platform games "will find Cosmo much to their liking... hours of pleasure without excessive destruction".

    — Computer Gaming World, 1993

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

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  1. 1.0Wake me up when it's over0+ out of 100
  2. 1.5Wake me up when it's over+ thumbs-up40+ out of 100
  3. 2.0Could be better50+ out of 100
  4. 2.5Could be better+ thumbs-up60+ out of 100
  5. 3.0Good job68+ out of 100
  6. 3.5Good job+ thumbs-up75+ out of 100
  7. 4.0Great job!80+ out of 100
  8. 4.5Great job!+ thumbs-up85+ out of 100
  9. 5.0Outstanding!90+ out of 100

GamePro named the five whole-number faces; a thumbs-up adds half a point to the same caption. GamePro’s original rating-face design, adapted from Ryan Quintal’s 2018 vector recreation; cleanup for YouConsoles.

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