Re: Cosmic Chasm trivia

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 22:42:29 -0800 (PST), aek@spies.com (Al Kossow) wrote:

>
>I was reading through an old issue of Replay (May, 1983) tonight
>and came upon this
>
>"Cinematronics: Cosmic Chasm - space chase game (licensed from GCE)
> upright only "
>
>guess that explains why it looks similar to Quantum hardware (also
>done by GCE)

GCE (General Consumer Electronics, Inc) were the same people that made the
Vectrex. They also made Quantum?

After GCE spent so much time porting over Cinematronics games to the Vectrex, I
guess Cinematronics decided to return the favor by porting Cosmic Chasm to a
full size machine.

I read somewhere (maybe my homepage? Who knows I haven't been there in years)
that Cosmic Chasm was supposed to be the first Arcade to be ported from a home
game. But I don't know if this is really true. It seems to me Barrier can be
considered a port of Mattel Football (which was a great pocket game, but a real
loser of an arcade game!)

-Zonn
Received on Mon Mar 8 01:17:59 1999