Cosmic Sheriff was one of the first computer games to enable the Gun-Stick optical gun system, manufactured by the Spanish company MHT Ingenieros, a revolutionary hardware developed specifically for 8-bit computers. With this peripheral the user could shoot directly at the screen to eliminate his enemies.

Game consists of three zones of several levels each one.

Zone 1: The warehouses. Throughout three levels there are two bombs.
Zone 2: Control system and computers. There are four bombs to defuse along five levels.
Zone 3: Surface. Nine levels where there are six bombs to defuse.