Crystal Castles is an arcade developed by Atari, released 8 July 1983 on Xbox 360, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC and Apple II.
What Crystal Castles is
Crystal Castles is an arcade game developed by Atari and released in 1983. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX, PC (Microsoft Windows) and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
Quick answers
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