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Xbox 360
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Apple IIgs
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Description

A mouse-driven game in which the player controls a small, circular spaceship which must travel around the screen collecting crystals. This task is made more difficult by the aliens which constantly swarm out from the portals on both sides of the screen. These can be shot down by the ship's gun (which has unlimited ammo) or eliminated by activating one of the player's limited supply of "smart bombs", which will clear the screen of all current enemies.

The physics of the game were quite unusual for the time; the ship does not simply follow the mouse's movement like a mouse cursor. Rather, it retains its inertia, and must be carefully guided around so it does not crash into anything. Bullets, when fired, travel in the direction of the ship's movement, requiring the player to actually travel toward enemies in order to shoot them down.

This was the first color game for the Macintosh, although it was business-as-usual for the IIgs.

Merchant Title Platform Price  
Amazon
Crystal Quest Game Boy $4.95  
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Crystal Quest    
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The Press Says

Games Radar Xbox 360 Apr 20, 2006 8 out of 10 80
Extreme Gamer Xbox 360 Feb 16, 2006 7 out of 10 70
AceGamez Xbox 360 2006 7 out of 10 70
GamesAreFun.com (GAF) Xbox 360 Jan 12, 2008 7 out of 10 70
IGN Xbox 360 Feb 13, 2006 6.3 out of 10 63
GameSpot Xbox 360 Feb 08, 2006 6.2 out of 10 62
TeamXbox Xbox 360 Feb 16, 2006 6.1 out of 10 61
Thunderbolt Games Xbox 360 Oct 17, 2007 6 out of 10 60
GamingExcellence Xbox 360 Jun 21, 2006 6 out of 10 60
XBox Evolved Xbox 360 Apr 05, 2006 5.5 out of 10 55

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This entry was contributed by Adam Luoranen (73), Kabushi (48287) and Wizo (30360)
 

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