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Crystal Caves
- Location & Contact Information
- Address: Three Rivers CA
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- Official Website: []
- Overview
Crystal Caves is Side scrolling platform computer game developed and published by Apogee Software. The player controls Mylo Steamwitz, a space miner who wants to get rich quick. In order to invest in some ridiculous tribble), he travels to the Altairian star system, and ventures into the caves in the planets there to harvest large, naturally grown crystals.The goal of each level is collect all of the crystals and safely reach the exit. Mylo must navigate each level by jumping onto platforms, some of which must be activated by switches, as well as shooting enemies with his rocket launcher. The game has a number of identifying features, such as a gravity inversion powerup, and an unexpected death when the player accidentally shoots out a level's air generator.Like most Apogee games, this game was released in three episodes, the first one being shareware. The three episodes are called: The Trouble with Twibbles, Slugging It Out, and Mylo Versus the Supernova.Contrary to many PC platformers of the early 90's, the main character responds fluidly to controls (although it suffered from jerky scrolling, which at that time was rather common for action games on PC). The levels are quite small in size, but have various different graphical themes and, not unlike other Apogee games, also contain a number of inside jokes that refer to other games of the same time period.Crystal Caves uses the same game engine as Secret Agent, which was released about a year later.On October 24 2005, Apogee released a maintenance patch to fix a bug in the game which set the player's computer's clock backwards 100 years after playing on Windows XP. As the game was released 14 years and one day earlier, Apogee may now hold the record for longest time between an initial game release and a maintenance patch. [1]
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