Reviews

Costa Panayi's first game for the Spectrum was an update of his ZX81 favourite Astral Convoy. Although there's some good use of colour and UDGs, there's not a lot of sound and movement is restricted to exact character squares with consequent jerky scrolling.

As for the gameplay, it's a fairly simple protect-'em-up; you've got a convoy travelling through space that comes under from alien spacecraft and showers of asteroids. Don't spend too much time chasing down the former only to let the latter destroy your ships.

It's not a bad game at all by 1982 standards, but it's dated very badly, and in some ways Astral Convoy has held up better. After all, the latter remains one of the most liked ZX81 games, but Cosmos is long forgotten by most Spectrum gmaeers.