Cosmic Cruiser

Cosmic Cruiser is a video game in the action genre developed by Imagine Software Ltd. and published by Imagine Software Ltd. originally released in 1984. It is currently playable on Commodore 64, BBC Micro.

The Rallom Empire's plan to invade Earth has gone one step further, as they have taken over a space station belonging to Earth in a distant area of space holding the entire crew hostage. You are the pilot of an old-fashioned Cosmic Cruiser flying around the area so you have been tasked with the mission of rescuing the station's crew in what could be a suicide mission. As you get closer you realize that your only plan is to leave your ship in your spacesuit and fire as many portals as you can at the rotating station from your roof mounted cannon. You then have to take out the crew members and bring them back to your ship through various levels.

Cosmic Cruiser is a side view single screen shooter in which you can move your hero in multiple directions, but once he is moving he can't stop, so you can only adjust his direction. The cannon is at the bottom right of the screen while the station is at the top and moves up and down. The portals move from left to right in the station moving around the station and you have to shoot them to open them sitting on the cannon. Once you have opened some portals you have to fly to one and take out a crew member who will float around the screen and once you grab him, you then take him to an open hatch at the bottom left of the screen.

As you shoot and fly there are Rallom fighters that move around the screen and try to bomb or touch you, you are immune while firing the cannon but you will lose one of three lives if you are hit while flying. As the portals open some Alien Warriors will appear and try to retrieve a crew member if they are outside the station and will also try to kill you. You can kill them with your gun, but ammo is limited and you lose a life if they hit you or take a crew member back to the station. A level is completed when a timer reaches zero and you receive bonus points for any crew member rescued and your ammo level is full again.

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