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Crystal Castles
(3.5)
2
1983
Crystal Castles is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. The player controls Bentley Bear who has to collect gems located throughout trimetric-projected rendered castles while avoiding enemies, some of whom are after the gems as well. Crystal Castles is one of the first arcade action games with an ending, instead of continuing indefinitely, looping, or ending in a kill screen, and to contain advance warp zones. The first level of the arcade original. The initials of the player with the highest score–FXL here–are built into the castle. Crystal Castles has nine levels with four castles each, and a tenth level with a single castle—the clearing of which ends the game. Each of the 37 trimetric-projected castles consists of a maze of hallways filled with gems and bonus objects and also includes stairs, elevators and tunnels that the player can use as shortcuts. The three-letter initials of the player with the highest score are used to form the first level's castle structure. When all gems in a castle have been collected, a tune of the Nutcracker Suite is played, and the player moves to the next castle.
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Crystal Castles
I'll give it two stars simply for being different from a lot of games of that era. Apparently, this was one of the first arcade action games with an actual ending (instead of repeating endlessly or ending with a kill screen).
You run around various mazes as a bear collecting gems and avoiding enemies. It was quite difficult on KBM though, and I only managed to get past 1 level.
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