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

User Reviews

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Commodore 64

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Critic Reviews

The Atari Times	Atari 8-bit	Mar 15, 2006	95 out of 100	95
Your Sinclair	ZX Spectrum	Dec, 1989	90 out of 100	90
The Video Game Critic	Atari 2600	Apr 09, 2004	B	75
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Atari ST	Sep, 1988	7 out of 10	70
The Video Game Critic	Arcade	Nov 07, 2004	B-	67
Tilt	ZX Spectrum	Apr, 1987	13 out of 20	65
Woodgrain Wonderland	Atari 2600	Nov 24, 2016	C+	58
Zzap!	Commodore 64	Jan, 1987	45 out of 100	45
Computer Gamer	ZX Spectrum	Jan, 1987	35 out of 100	35
JoyStik	Arcade	Dec, 1983	Unscored	Unscored

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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.

Character renaming

Bentley Bear was originally to be called Braveheart Bear, but a Native American activist group protested the name.

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.