| Crystal Caverns | |
|---|---|
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| Developer(s) | Imaginative Systems Software |
| Publisher(s) | Hayden Software |
| Designer(s) | Daniel Kitchen [1] |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, Commodore 64 |
| Release | 1982: Apple [2] 1984: C64 [3] |
| Genre(s) | Text adventure [4] |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Crystal Caverns is a text adventure written by Daniel Kitchen of American studio Imaginative Systems Software [5] for the Apple II and published by Hayden Software in 1982. A Commodore 64 port was released in 1984.
Crystal Caverns is a treasure-hunt game which takes place in a mansion, as well as in the woods and in tunnels. [6] [7]
Kelly Grimes reviewed Crystal Caverns in Space Gamer No. 64. [6] 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." [6] 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." [8] 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." [4]
Zork is a text adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded and split the game into three titles—Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz, and Zork III: The Dungeon Master—which were released commercially for a range of personal computers beginning in 1980. In Zork, the player explores the abandoned Great Underground Empire in search of treasure. The player moves between the game's hundreds of locations and interacts with objects by typing commands in natural language that the game interprets. The program acts as a narrator, describing the player's location and the results of the player's commands. It has been described as the most famous piece of interactive fiction.
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