[3] It was written by Japanese programmer M. Hata for the Apple II and published by Creative Computing Software in November 1979.

[4][5] It was later published as Cosmos Mission in September 1980 by the California Pacific Computer Company.

[6] By June 1982, 20,000 copies had been sold to tie with Ultima and Castle Wolfenstein for seventh on Computer Gaming World's list of top sellers.

[1] It received the award for "Most Popular Program of 1978–1980 for the Apple Computer" in a Softalk readers poll.

[8] The Comos Mission release debuted at 24 on Softalk's list of bestselling Apple II software.