

1980 · Universal Co., Ltd. · Shooter · Arcade
Cosmic Alien
Cosmic Alien is an arcade game that is a clone of Galaxian. Players control a gun at the bottom of the screen that shoots at aliens (which are known as "chiefs", "guards", "commanders", or "soldiers") that are in a formation overhead. Aliens begin peeling off the formation and fly towards the bottom of the screen while dropping bombs. There are two flagship-type aliens (chiefs) at the top of the screen that can fly accompanied with one or more escort (guard) aliens; shooting one or more of the guards before shooting a chief will increase the amount of the chief’s score. If a player does not shoot an alien (or if it doesn’t ram the player’s gun) during its attack run it will return to the formation.
- Released
- 1 February 1980
- Platforms
- Arcade
- Genres
- ShooterArcade
- Developers
- Universal Co., Ltd.
- Publishers
- Universal Co., Ltd.
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- Science fiction
Media
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Added from the IGDB catalog; not on any collection yet.
