Longplay: Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure 1 (1992) [MS-DOS]

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.

At the end of the first episode, Cosmo unexpectedly gets swallowed by a large creature. The story continues in the second episode, where Cosmo ends up in the creature's body and has to find a way out. At the end of the second episode, Cosmo finds the city where he thinks his parents might have been taken. In the final episode, Cosmo finds his parents (who were in no danger of being eaten the whole time) and has a great time at Disneyland for his birthday.

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, and features 16-color EGA graphics at 320×200 screen resolution. Working titles for the game include The Adventures of Zonk and Cosmo: Kid From Space.

The game's technology at the time was comparable and in direct competition with that of Nintendo's Super Mario Brothers 3 for the NES (which was released several years prior, but was still selling well at the time). Although Cosmo contained 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.

While the game supports AdLib music, it does not support SoundBlaster sound. The sound effects are instead generated by the PC speaker.

The title screen music is based on ZZ Top's "Tush".

[Brandon-ypsm]

This is the first video game i ever played. I loved it. I love you dad.

[Sn_SS]

I am going to cry... this is my childhood yoo

[derekthorngren]

This, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem 1&2, and Blake Stone are SOME of the games I played as a kid. Hits me with that nostalgic magic.

[jadex]

I played this game as a child when visiting my father's workplace once and have been searching for it ever since!!! Thank you for uploading, the mystery is finally solved 25 years later!

[elzar]

Wow, memories flooding… wish life had a replay button🥹

[BlackJackZmagnum]

When I was a kid, 19 years ago, I always remembered the bonus levels as something super georgeus, and greatful dreamy from all of times, I don't know how to explain, its just delightful when I remember it as a kid-minded. So much fun on all those colorful stars. I want to cry as everyone here, hehe.

[suomipoika]

I played this game a lot when i was a 4-6 years old, i could not read or speak english, because my main language was Finnish, so i did not understand what the game was saying... I always ended up on that things mouth at the end, i tried so many times to beat the end but i always ended up being eaten xD Now i see, it was the actual ending for that game.

[vanderslagmulders]

I really enjoyed this game but I’m astonished right now at the vast amount of dormant memories that will stay dormant forever if not triggered by something specific.

[SimilakChild]

Played this game when I was a little kid. Cosmo Adventures, Hocus Pocus, and Prince of Persia were my favorites back then.

[moreoreos]

I remember being a kid having my dad set up the computer for me so that i could play all the games he had gotten. This game, rescue rover, monster bash, jazz jackrabbit....i went on a nostalgia trip today trying to figure out the names of some of those games. Really some of my fondest memories just seeing the game's in action is weirdly comforting

[lunalamiah]

Cosmo and Commander Keen were my first videogames in 1995: I totally loved and still loving them today ❤❤❤❤ ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[jabbathefluff]

I actually still play this game to this day and that's my biggest flex of the year

[thechino]

The memories! I remember coming home from school and playing this at age 7.

[MsBrynnElizabeth]

My childhood

This
Crystal Caves
Wolfenstein 3d (original shareware version)
Doom (original shareware version)

I’ll forever remember the day my parents bought the other 2 episodes for cosmo…

The first game I ever played beginning to end 100%.

Love this

[jamesblackwell]

36 year old here. I played the crap out of this game and the entire Commander Keen series.

[MissDafne]

I remembered when I was 8 or 9 I stopped playing this game because I got hella scared of the ending, that frame of Cosmo falling into that monster's mouth gave me nightmares and never played the game again until I forgot about it and just recently could found it again. That part is still quite terrifying 😅

[jiipeeassa]

Who else thinks the Cosmo looks cute when its falling down and covering its eyes with the suction hands :D

[mc]

I played this forever when I was a kid, I've been trying forever to remember the name, finally found it. Our first family PC was a clunky old Packard Bell running Win95, so that must have been what I used to play this game. Thank you so much for posting this! What a trip!

[someonefromaliensfamily]

I don't temember this game, but I saw video about 101 DOS games, and these fragment looks very familiar. FINALLY! I found game of my childhood.... Idk it makes me cry

Sorry for my english. I'm from small town from Russia

[Tomsonic]

I never realised the bonus stage was the same every time. As an 11 year old kid, I would often fall to the bottom straight away and hit the Exit without realising you could stay and collect gems - particularly remember the little creatures that gave you treasure!