Crystal Castles (1983)
Acorn Electron · Amstrad CPC · Apple II · Arcade · Atari 8-bit · Atari ST/STE · BBC Microcomputer System · Commodore C64/128/MAX · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox 360 · ZX Spectrum
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Crystal Castles is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. The player controls a cartoon bear by the name of Bentley Bear, who has to collect gems located throughout trimetric-projected rendered castles while avoiding enemies out to get him as well as the gems.
Crystal Castles is notable for being one of the first arcade action games with …
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Crystal Castles is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1983. The player controls a cartoon bear by the name of Bentley Bear, who has to collect gems located throughout trimetric-projected rendered castles while avoiding enemies out to get him as well as the gems.
Crystal Castles is notable for being one of the first arcade action games with an actual ending, whereas most games of the time either continued indefinitely, ended in what was termed a "kill screen" or simply just restarted from the first level, and to contain advance warp zones.
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Release dates
- Jul 08, 1983 (Full Release) (North_America) Arcade
- 1983 (Full Release) (North_America) Apple II
- Jul 1984 (Full Release) (North_America) Commodore C64/128/MAX
- 1985 (Full Release) (Europe) Commodore C64/128/MAX
- 1986 (Full Release) (Europe) Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System, ZX Spectrum
- 1986 (Full Release) (North_America) Atari ST/STE
- 1988 (Full Release) (Europe) Atari ST/STE
- May 1989 (Full Release) (North_America) Atari 8-bit
- Mar 24, 2010 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Also available on
- Crystal Castles (1984) · 2600
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- Atari Arcade Hits: Volume 2 (Dec 2000) · PC
- Atari Anniversary Edition (Jul 2001) · DC, GBA, PC, PS1
- Atari: 80 Classic Games in One! (Nov 2003) · PC
- Atari Anthology (Nov 2004) · PS2, XBOX
- Atari Masterpieces Vol. II (Mar 2006) · NGE
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