Crystal Caves

Published by: Apogee Software, Ltd.
Developed by: Apogee Software, Ltd.
Released: 1991 (1995 for the CD)
Platform: DOS
	

Description:
Mylo Steamwitz, an enterprising space trader, has set out to the perilous mines 
of the Altairian system. He hopes to collect enough crystals to start a profitable 
twibble farm.

Crystal Caves is a side-scrolling platform game, where the objective is to finish 
each level collecting every single crystal within. On his way, Mylo is threatened 
by numerous monsters, such as bats, robots, mine carts or dinosaurs; there are also a 
lot of hazards such as stalactites and stalagmites, pipes which leak harmful water or 
poisonous mushrooms which kill instantly. Mylo has three health points, and if he is 
harmed enough times to deplete them all, he dies (but thankfully he has unlimited 
lives). To defend himself, Mylo has a missile pistol, which is able to take out most 
enemies, but not all. Many levels require the player to act fast and plan beforehand, 
as it's easy to get Mylo stuck in an impossible-to-win situation - if this happens, 
the level must be restarted.

Apart from the crystals, the levels contain a lot of items to collect ammunition for 
the pistol, bonus items such as pickaxes or purple mushrooms that give score, and eggs 
which turn into letters when shot - collecting all 5 letters (B, O, N, U, S) on a 
level gives a lot of points, but it's not always easy to get them! It's also possible 
to find a power-up that reverses gravity when picked up, another one which gives your 
pistol the power to kill every enemy, a stop sign which freezes all enemies and makes 
them harmless and a red mushroom which allows you to kill enemies by running into them. 
These power-ups last only for a limited time though, so be careful, as they are always 
instrumental to victory!


Notes:
Imaged from my original in CloneCD format, Jewelcase scans included. (600dpi/png)

Setup:
The installer took a while to work out under DosBox 0.73 because it would not install
into the mounted C: drive directory due to it detecting no available disc space.

I found the way around this was to mount C: as a floppy in the autoexec like this:
mount c . -t floppy ("." is the default base directory, no need to change this)
The installer then creates the folder "CAVES"


-lenny :)