Crystal Castles is an arcade developed by Atari, released 1 March 1984 on Atari 2600.
What Crystal Castles is
Crystal Castles is an arcade game developed by Atari and released in 1984. It is available on Atari 2600 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Crystal Castles is the Atari 2600 port of 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.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
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When did Crystal Castles come out?
Crystal Castles was released on 1 March 1984 for Atari 2600.
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