Cosmic Race

Cosmic Race[lower-alpha 1] is a video game developed for the PlayStation system, created by the Japanese company Neorex, which became famous after receiving the dishonor of a "0.0 out of 10.0" rating in Game Players magazine. The game was released in 1995 in Japan only. Cosmic Race is the only game produced by Neorex.

This article is about the 1995 PlayStation video game. For the essay by José Vasconcelos, see La raza cósmica.
Cosmic Race
Developer(s)NEOREX
Publisher(s)NEOREX
Director(s)Masato Furuta
Producer(s)Toshiyuki Komai
Designer(s)Eijiro Kito
Programmer(s)Eiji Kamiya
Masaki Nishibu
Shiro Shamoto
Artist(s)Kazunari Hasegawa
Muneyuki Ichihara
Shigehisa Okada
Writer(s)Kenji Nakamura
Composer(s)Hurry Mind
Platform(s)PlayStation
Release
Genre(s)Racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer (up to two players)

Gameplay

As the title implies, it was ostensibly a spaceship-racing game.

The game is notorious for being one of the worst video games of all time. Criticisms of the game include the strange controls (the player must press the R1 button to move forward), the poor graphics that were taken from the PlayStation developer's kit, and the poor collision detection.

The review

The game was reviewed in Game Players issue #88, published September 1996, which was the last issue published under the name "Game Players." In it, the reviews section was prefaced (as usual) with a list of the possible ratings (0.0-10.0). In each issue ratings 1.0-10.0 would have humorous real world analogs. The rating of 0.0 had been described for quite a while as simply "Cosmic Race." Since this was the final issue of Game Players under its original name, they decided to commemorate the occasion by finally giving the game a proper review.

The review was written by Chris Charla, who bemoaned long loading times, poor graphics which were taken directly from the PlayStation SDK ("your mom could do better graphics than this. Seriously."), a non-intuitive control system, and a complete lack of collision detection (allowing you to "fly under the world").

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "Although there are only a few titles available on the PlayStation, it is obvious, in comparison, that Cosmic Race is substandard on almost every level. The graphics are childish and uninspired and the control is entirely awkward. If all were right with the world, this game would never have been made."[2]

Notes
  1. Japanese: コズミック レース Hepburn: Kozumikku Rēsu

References
  1. Hicks, Brad. "Cosmic Race is released for Playstation in Japan". worldhistoryproject.org. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. "Finals". Next Generation. No. 7. Imagine Media. July 1995. p. 64.
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