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Game Overview

Cosmic Town is one of those weird little Atari 2600 games you stumble across when digging too deep into PAL exclusives. It's got that unmistakable early-80s vibe—blocky spaceships, chunky pixels, and controls that make you wonder if your joystick is broken or if it's just supposed to feel that stiff.

Honestly? It's not exactly Space Invaders, but there's something charming about how janky it is. You’re probably just shooting aliens or dodging asteroids (the manual, if you can find one, is useless), but the real appeal is how it captures that era when every third-party publisher was throwing whatever they could at the wall to see what stuck. ITT Family Games wasn’t exactly a powerhouse, and it shows—but in a way that’s weirdly endearing.

If you collect obscure retro stuff, this is the kind of oddity you boot up once to say you’ve tried it, then shelve forever next to your E.T. cartridges. The fact that it exists at all is the best part.