Cosmic Tunnels

Cosmic Tunnels is a video game in the action genre and published by Datamost, Inc. originally released in 1983. It is currently playable on Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit.

You are the main defender of the planet Sirref, the only habitable planet in the Relffok Galaxy, which is part of the Nodrog universe, and you have a big problem, energy supplies are running dangerously low. The Jebs have imposed an energy embargo on your planet and do not want to supply the Power Generator Complex located on the moon that supplies all the planet's energy from their power plants located on four asteroids. You have decided that your mission will be to get the necessary energy rods from the asteroids, but the only way to get there is through four Cosmic Tunnels and if you succeed then you have to land on each asteroid and collect all the rods they have before returning to your base. .

Cosmic Tunnels is a single screen game split into several parts with each asteroid being played in three parts and all must be completed for your mission to be successful. The first screen is viewed from the side, where you control your spaceship from the bottom of the screen and must guide it upwards to one of four Cosmic Tunnels while avoiding falling meteors. You can move the ship left, right and up, but gravity will try to pull you down and you won't stop right away when you move in one direction. Hitting the meteorite or your base causes you to lose part of an energy bar, moving your ship also causes you to lose energy and when it empties then it's game over.

When you reach the entrance of a tunnel, the game switches to a 3rd person view as you fly on screen through the tunnel shooting or avoiding the space mines coming towards you for 25 seconds to complete the tunnel. You now appear in a side view screen where you have to land on the landing pad while avoiding the missiles fired by the defense systems. Once again, inertia and gravity play an important role in moving your ship around the screen. You can bombard the defense systems, but in doing so you lose energy. Once you land, you will see a side screen viewed from a high angle and you will appear from your rocket at the top of the screen. There are four energy bars at the bottom of the screen and you must collect them one at a time and take them to your ship. There are creatures running around the screen and you must avoid them or you will lose one of the three astronauts. You can accelerate to run but this is limited and there are also pads you can stand on that make you jump in the air or give you a jetcoptor to fly for a short time.

Once you have collected all the bars you have to go back to the base and repeat the other screens but in reverse order. Once you reach your base, you will receive bonus points for the energy and astronauts you have left before you replenish them and attempt the next Cosmic Tunnel.

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