Cosmic Ark is an Atari 2600 game designed by Rob Fulop and published by Imagic in 1982.

[3] In the first stage, the player must fend off meteor showers from all four sides of the screen by pushing the joystick to fire in the desired direction, similar to the 1980 arcade game Space Zap.

The second stage requires the player to pilot a shuttle to a planet and use its tractor beam to pick up life forms.

After a set period of time, a klaxon will warn of renewed meteor activity, and the player must return immediately to defend the ark.

[1] According to Fulop, the game was created entirely as a feat of technical one-upmanship: to show off the impressive background starfield effect to Activision programmers David Crane and Bob Whitehead.