Originally Posted by
Phosphor Dot Fossils
I really can't go in for any Kassar-bashing for not releasing Cosmos. As neat as the idea of holographic overlays sounds, that implementation of it doesn't seem like it was going to be much more than throwing a Magnavox Odyssey-style overlay (except it'd be holographic!) on top of a display no more sophisticated than, say, Mattel Electronic Football's grid of LEDs. Maybe a neat tech demo, but I'm not sure how it would've advanced game play in any meaningful way. My gut instinct is that, as technological side-steps in video games go, the Vectrex would still have been more significant than Cosmos if it had been released.