Retro Game of the Day! Cosmo Gang - The Video
Cosmo Gang - The Video by Namco for Super Famicom (Japanese version of the 16-Bit Super Nintendo), released in Japan in 1991 in the arcade and the following year for the console.
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So what have we here? Namco, purveyors of alien blast'em-up classics such as
Galaga,
Galaxian and
Gaplus (my tongue hurts now) retooled a familiar formula yet again, this time with a popular Japanese redemption machine theme. How many times can you go to the well?
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Cosmo is a simple retelling of that tired old story (okay, I don't mean to be so harsh!) with a fresh coat of pixel-paint. Very cute, very colorful, the game tasks you with shooting down wave after wave of the cartoony Cosmo Gangers in due process.
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It's very fluid, very bouncy, very cutesy. If you liked the earlier iterations of this theme, then you will no doubt feel right at home in this installment as well.
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Pretty standard fare, which deviates from the norm as you progress through the journey (somewhat interesting powerups, fire-breathing foes, and of course the expected bonus stages!) Cosmo isn't a breakthrough of any sort, but it is nice and solid and good for some mindless happy cheery blasting.
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