---
title: Cosmic Chasm
tags:
- shoot them up
- vector graphics
years:
- '1982'
params:
  specs:
  - label: year of release
    value: '1982'
  - label: companies
    value: GCE
  - label: type
    value: game
  - label: media
    value: cartridge
  - label: systems
    value: Vectrex
  - label: number of players
    value: 1 - 2 players (alternate)
  - label: staff
    value: Bill Hawkins
  screenshots:
  - title: title screen
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: menu / options
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: mission 1
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: study the map!
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: destroy all protectors (diamond shaped)
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: last one being destroyed
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: drill your way out
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: another chamber to pass through
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: you can use your protection shield
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: oops, I'm dead
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: at least, the central chamber!
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: plant the bomb and... escape!
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: i didn't escaped within 15 seconds... the whole complex exploses!
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: mission 2
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: mission 2 map
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: caverns are harder to complete
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: oops, I did it again
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: ''
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: box - back
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: cartridge
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: overlay
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: documentation - cover
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: Documentation - page 1
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: Documentation - page 2
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: Documentation - page 3
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: Documentation - page 4
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  machines:
  - /museum/milton-bradley-vectrex
  company: /companies/milton-bradley
  oc_id: 436
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230602051900/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=436
    date: '2023-06-02'
---

"Can you save the galaxy by blowing up the alien-inhabited planet... and get off the planet before you explode too? You must find your way through the deep underground maze while battling with the Planet Protectors. If you can get to the centre, plant your bomb and try to find your way out. It's only a matter of seconds before the planet goes BOOM!"

Cosmic Chasm is a wonderfully complex space adventure that combines elements of shooters and maze games, topped off with a dose of strategy.

Licensing agreements between Cinematronics and GCE even brought the original Vectrex title Cosmic Chasm to the arcade, making it the first console game to become a coin-op, instead of the usual other way around.