Crystal Castles cover art

Game entry

Crystal Castles

1983 · Puzzle, Arcade · PC, Xbox 360, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, Arcade, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System, Acorn Electron · U.S. Gold

Crystal Castles is listed in the GameForever catalogue but not in the duel pool: this game is never offered for a vote, its 1,500 points are never at stake and it does not appear in the world ranking. Its entry and its debate stay open.

World rank

ELO score

1,500

Wins

Duels played

0

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About Crystal Castles

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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