Crystal Quest

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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.

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Alternate Titles

• "Crystal Quest Classic" -- Windows and Mac OS X title

Part of the Following Group

• Console Generation Exclusives: Xbox 360

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Critic Reviews

Techtite	Macintosh	2000		100
GamesRadar	Xbox 360	Apr 20, 2006	8 out of 10	80
Console Monster	Xbox 360	Mar 03, 2007	75 out of 100	75
GamesAreFun.com (GAF)	Xbox 360	Jan 12, 2008	7 out of 10	70
AceGamez	Xbox 360	2006	7 out of 10	70
TeamXbox	Xbox 360	Feb 16, 2006	6.1 out of 10	61
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Xbox 360	Feb 17, 2006	6 out of 10	60
Thunderbolt Games	Xbox 360	Oct 17, 2007	6 out of 10	60
Play Time	Game Boy	Dec, 1991	48 out of 100	48
Play Time	Macintosh	Dec, 1992	39 out of 100	39

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Trivia

Amiga

The Amiga version of Crystal Quest is very unique in that it runs in the "lowres interlaced" (320x512) mode. As is written in the documentation, this "can result in annoying flicker".

Related Web Sites

• X360A achievement guide (X360A's achievement guide for Crystal Quest.)