| Cosmic Pirate |
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| Release Date | 1989 |
| Original Publisher | Byte Back (UK) |
| Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Arcade Game: Shoot-em-up |
| Max. Players | 1 |
| Original Price | £2.99 |
| Controls | Kempston Joystick |
| Tie-in Licences | Cosmic Pirate (Software) from Icon Design Ltd (UK) |
| Other Platforms | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 |
| Average mag. score | 56.67% (3 reviews) |
| Martijn's WoS score | 51% (10 votes) |
Re-releases
| #1 - EDOS (UK) |
Authors/Contributors
| Peter Mannion (UK) | at MC Lothlorien Ltd | - ? | |
| John Brennan (UK) | at MC Lothlorien Ltd | - ? | |
| Iain Traynor (UK) | at MC Lothlorien Ltd | - ? |
Remarks
| On the Zee-3 website, Ste Pickford recalls: "We didn't have any involvement in these versions of Cosmic Pirate. Mike Cohen, the studio head of Icon Design / MC Lothlorien was involved with us at Zippo as a business consultant, and to the best of my recollection he negotiated a development contract for 8 bit versions of Cosmic Pirate pretty much behind our back (or perhaps I just wasn't taking much interest in this side of the business). I remember requesting to see half finished versions while they were under development, and being horrified at how bad they were (and to be fair, the original Amiga game wasn't that good in the first place), and hoping that these would never come out." |
Main File Downloads
| Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
| CosmicPirate(different).tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (Unspecified custom loader) | English | - (different) | |
 | CosmicPirate.tap.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | |
| CosmicPirate.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (Unspecified custom loader) | English |
Additional File Downloads
| Filename | Size | Release | Type | Language | Comments | |
| CosmicPirate.scr | 6,912 | Original | Loading screen | |||
| CosmicPirate.gif | 5,114 | Original | Running screen | |||
| CosmicPirate.jpg | 41,130 | Original | Inlay - Front | |||
| CosmicPirate_Tape.jpg | 68,189 | Original | Media scan | |||
| Cosmic Pirate (1989)(Byte Back).pok | 65 | Original | POK pokes file |
Magazine Reviews
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #19-1989/Apr | page 44 | - Review - not a Spectrum article | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #88-1989/Feb | page 58 | - Review - not a Spectrum article | |
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #96-1989/Nov | page 79 | - Review: 39% | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #70-1989/Nov | page 49 | - Review: 67% | |
| The Games Machine | issue #17-1989/Apr | page 40 | - Review - not a Spectrum article | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #47-1989/Nov | page 47 | - Review: 64% |
Magazine References
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #16-1989/Jan | page 24 | - News/Note | |
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #17-1989/Feb | page 16 | - Preview | |
| New Computer Express | issue #7-1988/Dec/24 special "Issues 7 & 8" | page 23 | - Preview | |
| The Games Machine | issue #16-1989/Mar | page 9 | - Preview |
Magazine Advertisements
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #18-1989/Mar | page 67 | - Full-page ad - coming soon ... | |
| ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) | issue #20-1989/May | page 20 | - Full-page ad - coming soon ... |
Links
| Centre for Computing History | (Information - in English) | |
| MobyGames | (Information - in English) | |
| The Tipshop | (Information - in English) | |
| UVL | (Information - in English) | |
| ZX Spectrum Reviews | (Magazine Reviews) | |
| Spectrum 2.0 | (User Reviews) | |
| The TZX Vault | (Software Preservation) | |
| ZX-Art | (Spectrum Graphics) | |
| ZXInfo | (ZXDB Front End) | |
| Every Game Going | (Multi-Platform Archive) | |
| New World Of Spectrum | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| Original World Of Spectrum | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| World Of Spectrum Classic | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| Spectrum Computing | (MAIN VIEW) |
