Software:Crystal Caverns (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Imaginative Systems Software |
| Publisher(s) | Hayden Software |
| Designer(s) | Daniel Kitchen[1] |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, Commodore 64 |
| Genre(s) | Text adventure[2] |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Crystal Caverns is a text adventure written by Daniel Kitchen of American studio Imaginative Systems Software[3] for the Apple II and published by Hayden Software in 1982. A Commodore 64 port was released in 1984.
Contents
Crystal Caverns is a treasure-hunt game which takes place in a mansion, as well as in the woods and in tunnels.[4][5]
Reception
Kelly Grimes reviewed Crystal Caverns in Space Gamer No. 64.[4] Grimes commented that "It is a nice change of pace from hack-and-slash or space shoot-em-ups, but it is not worth the price."[4] In Softalk, Roe Adams commented that the game is "written primarily for intermediate level adventurers" and concluded that it "offers several hours of enjoyable fun and thought."[6] In The Book of Adventure Games, Kim Schuette commented on the "imagininatively written, highly descriptive text, and several very well done puzzles", concluding that the game was "all in all, rather interesting."[2]
References
- ↑ Staff writer (August 2004). "Alumni". Classic Gaming Expo (CGE Services Corp.): 7. https://archive.org/details/vgmuseum_miscmags_cge2004/page/n5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Schuette, Kim (1984). The Book of Adventure Games. Los Angeles, CA: Arrays, Inc.. pp. 46–47, 261–262. ISBN 0-912003-08-1. https://archive.org/details/the-book-of-adventure-games.
- ↑ "Archived copy". http://www.dankitchen.com/html/text_block.php.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Grimes, Kelly (July–August 1983). "Capsule Reviews". Space Gamer (Steve Jackson Games) (64): 35–36.
- ↑ Dvorak, John C., ed (7 February 1983). "Software News". InfoWorld (InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.) 5 (6): 46. ISSN 0199-6649. https://books.google.com/books?id=_y8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46.
- ↑ Adams, Roe R. (March 1983). "Crystal Caverns". Softalk (Los Angeles, CA: Softalk Publishing Inc.) 3 (7): 169. ISSN 0274-9629. https://archive.org/details/softalkv3n07mar1983/page/169.
External links
- Crystal Caverns can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive
- 1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
- Review in Core magazine
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