Play Linus Spacehead's-Cosmic-Crusade Online

Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade came out in 1992 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Codemasters. It was part of that late NES era where developers were still finding creative ways to use the hardware, often with a quirky, experimental edge. The game doesn't try to fit neatly into one genre, which made it stand out even among other oddball titles from that time.

You control Linus, an alien trying to convince his home planet that Earth is real. Gameplay shifts between different styles: you explore small, screen by screen areas, take on odd jobs to earn Linobucks for fuel, and navigate a top down map in a spaceship to travel between planets. The objective is straightforward, but the path is filled with strange characters and sudden challenges, like robot uprisings or navigating creepy, isolated locations. The pacing is uneven, sometimes frantic and other times deliberately slow, which adds to its peculiar charm. It feels like navigating a bizarre, low budget sci fi road trip where nothing goes as planned.