Crystal Castles

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Released Jul 8, 1983

By: Atari, Microsoft Game Studios, U.S. Gold

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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.

Genres: Arcade Puzzle
Platforms: 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
Themes: Action Fantasy
Game modes: Multiplayer Single player
Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric Third person
Keywords: anthropomorphism collecting death easter egg high score maze single-screen level temporary invincibility trackball warping witches xbox live
Languages: English · Interface
Age ratings: ESRB E
Multiplayer: Offline multiplayer

Complete release history (13)

Arcade · Jul 8, 1983
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Apple II · 1983
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Commodore C64/128/MAX · July 1984
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Commodore C64/128/MAX · 1985
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Acorn Electron · 1986
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Amstrad CPC · 1986
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Atari ST/STE · 1986
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BBC Microcomputer System · 1986
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ZX Spectrum · 1986
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Atari ST/STE · 1988
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Atari 8-bit · May 1989
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PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mar 24, 2010
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Xbox 360 · Mar 24, 2010
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