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Cosmic Race is an early PlayStation racing game released exclusively in Japan, notable for receiving remarkably negative reception from many reviewers.

Previews

EGM²
🇺🇸 December 1994

Mentions original December release date

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GameFan
🇺🇸 January 1995

Mentions original December release date

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GameFan
🇺🇸 April 1995

Published months after the game's Japanese release

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Reviews

Consoles+
🇫🇷 March 1995

Import review

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Player One
🇫🇷 March 1995

Import review

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Ultimate Future Games
🇬🇧 April 1995

Import review; also includes a review of Crime Patrol on 3DO

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Última Generación
🇪🇸 May 1995

Import review

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Next Generation
🇬🇧 July 1995

Import review

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Game Players
🇺🇸 July 1995

Import review

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Game Players
🇺🇸 Holiday 1995

"Award" for extreme low quality

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Game Players
🇺🇸 September 1996

Explaining why the magazine used the game's name as a descriptor for all prior 0% scores

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Weekly Famitsu panel review (January 27, 1995)
"Bastards of 32-Bit" review on GameSetWatch (July 7, 2006; archived via Wayback Machine)

Websites

Official Japanese PlayStation listing (archived via Wayback Machine on June 22, 2008)

Sales

Japan

Date	Total sold
1995-01-22^[2]	1,518

Miscellaneous

Video Game Collector
🇺🇸 July 2008

Mentioned as part of a longer feature about kusoge

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References

↑ Official Japanese PlayStation listing (archived via Wayback Machine on June 22, 2008)
↑ Niche Barrier's record of Weekly Famitsu's sales charts

[1] Official Japanese PlayStation listing (archived via Wayback Machine on June 22, 2008)

[2] Niche Barrier's record of Weekly Famitsu's sales charts

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-'''Cosmic Race''' is an early PlayStation racing game released exclusively in Japan, notable for receiving intensely negative reception from many reviewers.
+'''Cosmic Race''' is an early PlayStation racing game released exclusively in Japan, notable for receiving remarkably negative reception from many reviewers.
+== Previews ==
+{{GalleryStart}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race preview in EGM2 issue 6.jpg
+|title=EGM²
+|date=December 1994
+|country=US
+|description=Mentions original December release date
+}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race preview in GameFan vol 3 issue 1.jpg
+|title=GameFan
+|date=January 1995
+|country=US
+|description=Mentions original December release date
+}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race preview in Gamefan vol 3 issue 4.pdf
+|title=GameFan
+|date=April 1995
+|country=US
+|description=Published months after the game's Japanese release
+}}
+{{GalleryEnd}}
 == Reviews ==
 {{GalleryStart}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race French import review in Consoles Plus issue 41.pdf
+|title=Consoles+
+|date=March 1995
+|country=FR
+|description=Import review
+}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race French import review in Player One issue 51.jpg
+|title=Player One
+|date=March 1995
+|country=FR
+|description=Import review
+}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race and Crime Patrol reviews in Ultimate Future Games issue 5.pdf
+|title=Ultimate Future Games
+|date=April 1995
+|country=UK
+|description=Import review; also includes a review of ''[[Crime Patrol]]'' on 3DO
+}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race Spanish review in Ultima Generacion issue 3.pdf
+|title=Última Generación
+|date=May 1995
+|country=ES
+|description=Import review
+}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race review in Next Generation issue 7.png
+|title=Next Generation
+|date=July 1995
+|country=UK
+|description=Import review
+}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race import review in Game Players issue 73.jpg
+|title=Game Players
+|date=July 1995
+|country=US
+|description=Import review
+}}
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Cosmic Race award in Game Players issue 79.jpg
+|title=Game Players
+|date=Holiday 1995
+|country=US
+|description="Award" for extreme low quality
+}}
 {{GalleryCard
 |file=Cosmic Race review in Game Players issue 88.jpg
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 |date=September 1996
 |country=US
-|description=Import review explaining why the magazine used the game's name as a descriptor for all prior 0% scores
+|description=Explaining why the magazine used the game's name as a descriptor for all prior 0% scores
 }}
 {{GalleryEnd}}
 * [https://postimg.cc/BLz8PYtM ''Weekly Famitsu'' panel review (January 27, 1995)]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060715184406/http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2006/07/column_bastards_of_32bit_cosmi.php "Bastards of 32-Bit" review on ''GameSetWatch''] (July 7, 2006; archived via Wayback Machine)
 == Websites ==
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080622151253/https://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/slps00009.html Official Japanese PlayStation listing] (archived via Wayback Machine on June 22, 2008)
+== Sales ==
+=== Japan ===
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! Date !! Total sold
+|-
+| 1995-01-22<ref>[https://nichebarrier.com/game/636-cosmic-race Niche Barrier's record of ''Weekly Famitsu'''s sales charts]</ref> || 1,518
+|}
+== Miscellaneous ==
+{{GalleryCard
+|file=Kusoge feature in Video Game Collector issue 10.pdf
+|title=Video Game Collector
+|date=July 2008
+|country=US
+|description=Mentioned as part of a longer feature about [[#wikipedia:Kusoge|''kusoge'']]
+}}
 == References ==