Crystal Caves – yet another scrolling action game in the usual Apogee fashion. You are Mylo Steamwitz, space trader, scouring the galaxy for treasure. Your current adventure takes you in the search for crystals in the caves of this alien planet. Your crystal collecting won’t be easy since you have to fight past aliens and other menacing dangers.



Download Episode 1 (shareware episode) here.

Game Executable: CC1.EXE

Settings:
cpu cycles 700
render frameskip 1
sdl mapperfile /usr/share/dosbox/mappercsa.txt

Controls:
Arrow keys – move around
Ctrl – jump
Alt – fire (also action key)
F1 (during gameplay) – reconfigure the keyboard settings.

Positives: Good gameplay, animations, and fun.
Negative: There is a small problem with XKBD and using the menus (see below).

DosBox Issues: A minor irritation is that sometimes you might have to hit a key with the XKBD keyboard several times in the menus for the game to respond. There is no such problem when I use my Bluetooth keyboard. Since the problem is so minor, I didn’t deduct anything off the score I would normally give this game.
Overall game rating: 4.4 stars out of 5