---
title: Cosmic Chasm
tags:
- shoot them up
- vector graphics
years:
- '1983'
params:
  image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_title.png
  specs:
  - label: year of release
    value: '1983'
  - label: companies
    value: Cinematronics
  - label: type
    value: game
  - label: media
    value: arcade cabinet
  - label: systems
    value: Arcade
  - label: number of players
    value: 1 player
  screenshots:
  - title: title screen
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_title.png
  - title: let's go to the first chamber
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_start.png
  - title: all baddies destroyed, we take this tunnel
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_chamber1.png
  - title: traveling through the tunnels
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_traveling.png
  - title: second chamber
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_chamber2.png
  - title: use the protection shield
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_chamber2-protect.png
  - title: central chamber but... game over
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_game-over.png
  - title: hiscore table
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_hiscore.png
  - title: enter your name
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/arcade_cosmic-chasm_name.png
  machines:
  - /museum/misc-arcade-video-games
  company: /companies/misc
  oc_id: 465
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221206140925/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=465
    date: '2022-12-06'
---

"The Cosmic Chasm space station has been seized by a hostile enemy force. Your mission: maneuver your ship through the tunnels and chasms of the station to the central power core. Destroy the core and escape, retracing your path to the point of entry before the chain-reaction explosions destroy the entire station. Success in this mission will lead you to twenty-three new and greater challenges."

Licensing agreements between Cinematronics and GCE brought the original Vectrex title [Cosmic Chasm](/software/cosmic-chasm/) to the arcade, making it the first console game to become a coin-op, instead of the usual other way around.

Despite the addition of colour and permanent display of the maze, the gameplay and amusement are not the same.