Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

aka: Cosmo: Kid From Space, The Adventures of Zonk
Moby ID: 910
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$4.99 new on Steam

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On a trip with his parents to every kid's favorite place in the universe (Disney World, of course), Cosmo becomes stranded on a planet, his parents vanished. You direct him as he runs and jumps through different lands, such as alien tropics, haunted forest, ice cave, and future world, to find his parents. Along the way he encounters the various platform baddies that he must either jump to death in the classic style or destroy with bombs. Bombs are also useful for finding secrets. Cosmo is also armed with suction cup arms which he can use to climb up tall walls.

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Average score: 77% (based on 4 ratings)

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Average score: 3.7 out of 5 (based on 33 ratings with 7 reviews)

A horribly cute little gem.

The Good
Cosmo is one of the coolest platformers ever -- it really does rock, with excellent EGA graphics, incredible ADLIB music and wonderful gameplay. Clever level design along with extremely humourous gameplay and concept make this one hell of a gem.

The Bad
Well, it's repetitive, and a bit minimalistic... but you get what you pay (very little) for :-)

The Bottom Line
A really good game I would probably buy if I ever saw in stores. Which, due its shareware nature, I would not.

DOS · by Tomer Gabel (4539) · 2000

The cutest, funniest and weirdest game on planet earth.

The Good
What can I say? The sound is impossible for 1992, the EGA graphics are amazing (probably because not many EGA games came out after 1992), the gameplay couldn't be better, there are extremely few controls, some even hardly used.



The Bad
Like most people the small variety of monsters, no, the extremely small variety of monsters. Every level you're like um... are there any more opponents to jump on! There's that red monster (the most common), the blue ball with the parachute, and the rest hardly appear.

The Bottom Line
This cute action-adventure is well-worth playing, I shouldn't be surprised because the creator of this game did make the award-winning Duke Nukem that held onto it's "best shareware" award for 2 straight years, and the wonderful Duke Nukem 2 that also won 3 or 4 awards (well it wasn't as good as the original). I am a huge Apogee fan, and this game just made me a bigger fan, a well deserved 5/5 for this game.

DOS · by Jim Fun (207) · 2001

A good replacement for console platformers

The Good
One big advantage console systems had over PCs were their platform games. Cosmo didn't have the same silky action as Mario, but the colorful graphics and diverse levels made up for it. It also adds in nice twists, like being able to stick to walls and drop bombs.

The Bad
The animation was a little stiff. The sound effects were reasonable for something coming out of a PC speaker, but still not so hot.

The Bottom Line
If you've got a PC but no NES, Cosmo makes a good substitute for Mario.

DOS · by Adam Baratz (1431) · 2000

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  • Several references to Duke Nukem are made in this game.
  • The high score list is stocked by default with names of Simpsons characters.

Shareware

Like most Apogee platformers Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure is actually a trilogy. The first part of the trilogy is shareware, the two other parts are not. The names of the three episodes are:1. Forbidden Planet: Adventure 1 of 3 2. Forbidden Planet: Adventure 2 of 3 3. Forbidden Planet: Adventure 3 of 3

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Game added by Derrick 'Knight' Steele.

Macintosh, Windows, Linux added by lights out party.

Additional contributors: Kate Jones, Xantheous, Adam Baratz, Jeanne, Frenkel, Patrick Bregger.

Game added February 26, 2000. Last modified January 25, 2024.