I'm Searching For an Old Game Disc (cosmic osmo!)

Agentflit

Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel! (Cyan's pre-myst, post-manhole extravaganza). I played the snot out of it in the day.



I had a hankering to play it recently, but sadly my disc is dead.

None of the online stores/ebay/etc have it. Any idea where I could find this? Supposedly Cyan was planning a re-release in a collection, but I have heard nothing since a vague announcement years ago. Help?

Squirminator2k

I've never even heard of this. What's the aim, etc.?

Zetetic Elench

I, too, am intrigued and would like to know more.

And squirminator: your sig haunted my childhood

Squirminator2k

I used to have nightmares about Guru Meditations as a child, to the extent where when the family's Amiga 500 was moved into my room I would unplug it in case it switched itself on and Guru'd at me as I slept.

But that's remarkably off-topic. Come, Agentfit! Share with us your gaming knowledge!

Agentflit

Squirminator2k wrote: »

I've never even heard of this. What's the aim, etc.?

It's an old macintosh game.

It's the same format as Myst, an adventure game where you click to move to another screen. There are a whole bunch of worlds with lots of things to click on (for example, in one guy's house there is an arcade in the attic which you can plug in and actually play). I think it was billed as "edutainment", but it's not, really. There was disk version and a CD version, the latter released later and being far superior.

Actually, I think Wikipedia is better at this than me:

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Osmo]Wikipedia's entry[/url] wrote:

There is no goal in Cosmic Osmo, no points, nothing that the player can keep in an inventory. There is no way to finish the game, since it has no end.

Despite being advertised as a children's game, people from all ages could enjoy it at the time. It has a very humorous tone to it, and popular culture references abounds. It's also obviously influenced by Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The graphics are 1-bit and use a lot of dithering patterns to simulate grayscale. Still, many of the scenes are very well drawn and are hand painted with the 9" compact Apple Macintosh screen in mind. Animations are very smooth even on these machines.

...and it's nowhere to be found.

Squirminator2k

Hm. I have to go into town tomorrow, and there's a very good computer game store that has a plethora of PC and Mac games old and new (they still have original, boxed copies of Sam & Max: Hit The Road - both the floppy and CD versions). I'll swing by on the way home and see if they have it.

AND THEN I WILL KEEP IT.