Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
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Developer(s)	Apogee Software
Designer(s)	Todd Replogle Allen Blum III
Artist(s)	Stephen Hornback
Composer(s)	Bobby Prince
Platform(s)	MS-DOS
Release	March 1992
Genre(s)	Side scroller
Mode(s)	Single-player

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure is a video game programmed by Todd Replogle and published by Apogee Software in 1992. It is a two-dimensional side-scrolling platform game produced for the PC platform.

Cosmo features 16-color EGA graphics at 320×200 screen resolution. Although the game had superior graphics capabilities in the form of three-layer masked horizontal parallax scrolling, this feature came at the cost of the game's frame rate, moving the graphics in increments of 8 pixels (the size of one game tile) instead of 1 pixel. A file contained with the shareware version of the game urged people not to download it if their computers could not handle it.

Working titles for the game included The Adventures of Zonk and Cosmo: Kid From Space.

While the game supports AdLib music, it does not support SoundBlaster sound. The sound effects are instead generated by the PC speaker. One can cycle through all the sound effects in the game through the sound test option in the main menu.

Much like in his other games, Bobby Prince "borrowed" music from popular composers; the title screen music is based on ZZ Top's "Tush".

The storyline is about a little alien boy named "Cosmo". Cosmo's parents are taking him to Disneyland for his birthday. A comet hits their ship, forcing them to land on an unknown planet and repair the ship. Cosmo goes exploring, and when he returns, his parents are missing. Seeing large footprints, Cosmo thinks that his parents have been captured and sets off to rescue them before they are eaten. There are 3 episodes in the game series in which Cosmo must navigate through 10 alien-themed levels.

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