Crystal Castles

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Description

Bentley Bear is trapped in the Crystal Castles! To get out, he will need to collect all of the gems located throughout the castle. The game is played with an isometric view of the multi platformed castle. When Bentley collects all of the gems on the current castle, he will move on to the next, more difficult castle. Wandering throughout the castles are a wide variety of dangerous creatures, which Bentley should avoid. From time to time, a magic hat will appear. If Bentley collects the hat, he will temporarily be invincible to the castles inhabitants.

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Alternate Titles

• "Crystal Castles: Diamond Plateaus in Space" -- BBC Micro + Commodore 64 tag-lined title
• "Crystal Castles: Bentley Bear's A-maze-ing Adventures" -- Atari 2600 tag-lined title

Part of the Following Groups

• Animals: Bears / Pandas
• Gaming Service: Game Room
• Pac-Man variants

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Commodore 64

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Critic Reviews

ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	ZX Spectrum	Nov, 1989		100
The Atari Times	Atari 8-bit	Mar 15, 2006	95 out of 100	95
All Game Guide	Arcade	1998		90
neXGam	Atari 2600	Jun 27, 2013	8.2 out of 10	82
The Video Game Critic	Atari 2600	Apr 09, 2004	B	75
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	ZX Spectrum	Nov, 1989	70 out of 100	70
Tilt	ZX Spectrum	Apr, 1987	13 out of 20	65
ST Action	Atari ST	Aug, 1988	54 out of 100	54
Computer Gamer	ZX Spectrum	Jan, 1987	35 out of 100	35
Computer Gamer	Commodore 64	Jan, 1987	30 out of 100	30

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Arcade version of Crystal Castles appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Spectrum release

In a rather strange marketing move, US Gold made the Spectrum version 'Limited Edition', not pressing any more copies after the initial run. Stranger still, they later reissued the game on budget, and on a magazine cover-tape later still. The conversion was some time after the other formats, and not perceived as being of a high quality, so perhaps they wanted to limit the damage to their reputation.