this game was trippy af the level design was crazy especially with the elevated parts of the level and the music and sound effects were jarring as hell
Fantastic video! When my Mom and I played this game together at the arcade, the way the music changed to ominous when the bees would come after you always scared the hell outta me as a kid!
I was obsessed with this game in the arcades when I was younger. All the secret passages and exits...I have always regretted this is the one game I can't effectively play in any way in my home because I don't have a proper trackball. I even looked over the years for one, but they either were waaay too expensive or simply didn't work like the arcade one, which you could really put a free spin on, and was super-sensitive. :( I do have the game on a compilation disk but it's just not the same with a joypad. _AAAHHH THE BEES! NO NOT THE BEES! THEY'RE STINGING MY EYES!_
I agree with you. I used to play this, captain silver and karate champ when I was a kid at the arcades. Loved this game too and isnt the same without the trackerball. Got it on the switch. I can use the D pad and the thumb stick. The D pad is accurate but too slow, the thumb sick is faster but not accurate. The trackerball was fast and accurate. Shame. Unless I can buy a tracker ball for the switch? I doubt it
Trackball is a must. But yes, you need aracade type, like from hap (if i recall right). Mouse type trackballs do not work, u gotta move with force. Ive been able to get pretty good scores using a mouse, which i accelerate a lot, but accuracy isn't great.
Such an amazing game that still looks decent and looks like fun to play. I remember this one at the arcade room at our local SoCal pizzeria (Straw Hat Pizza). To be honest, this game was probably harder to play with the original trackball controller. Oh, the 80s...
I remember encountering this game at my dad's friend's house in 1996 (he owns an awful lot of pinball games and coin-op games that are set to free play). Pretty fun to play. I always loved how it played the Nutcracker music when you completed a level.
Funny that this game had an ending at all. Most early to mind 1980's arcade games just looped or recycled levels but were harder. This is a fun one, didn't know the bear had a name, Bentley the Bear. Somehow that doesn't fit. It's kinda amazing that an upgraded version to game hasn't been made or a sequel to the game wasn't produced. I don't remember too many people playing this game in the arcades I went to but that same could be said of Pac-man, Galaga, Q-bert and the like but I wasn't a teen in the early 1980's. When this game first came out, I bet a lot of people played it but my perspective of arcades comes from my remembrance of around 1985-ish. By 1985/6, a lot more advanced arcade games were out and Crystal Castles was relegated to the back areas of the arcades I frequented, where there was never a crowd.
Why can't Crystal Castles get a reboot or a remake? Q*Bert got remade, and so did Frogger, Space Invaders, Centipede and Breakout. But we don't see a remake for Crystal Castles.
I play this game at home on the Atari Flashback while listening to the song Magic Spells by Crystal Castles on repeat. Its the only way to get the full experience.
This was the best arcade game of all time. The cabinet was gorgeous, the graphics and colors were fantastic and the music was bitchen! I would love to own the original arcade game!
According to urban legend, Crystal Castles started out as a planned sequel to Asteroids called Toporoids. You moved your ship across the isometric playfield shooting asteroids falling from the sky.
Growing up we had a CD with a bunch of the classics on it. This game was one of them. Looking at this video it shows me that the game tries really hard later on to make you fail. But I imagine the same is said for a bunch of Arcade Games. I didn't grow up when Arcades were a thing so I had to rely on the CDs and Systems my Dad had.
A bit late, but this was pretty interesting! That one, with the descending slope in the front, genius, - wonder why 10 years newer games didn't make use of the technique, it looks so dynamic. Axillary perspective often looks very static and boring
I mean, some earlier games (such as Konami’s Scramble) gave you a congratulations screen but the game would just continue on after that at a higher difficulty. Also Atari’s Superman was technically the earliest game to have a definitive end where the game is actually over afterwards, but Crystal Castles was the first *arcade* game to do that (console games and arcade games have always kinda had their differences, and they most likely started putting endings in arcade games too because skilled gamers could play for an entire day or even more on one quarter in games that didn’t end (such as Pac-Man or Donkey Kong), potentially hurting profits made by the game.
Crystal Castles will be remembered as one of the first games to include an ending (like Fantasy that will be remembered as one of the first games to include continues).
Gauntlet never ended. I owned the arcade port on original Xbox, and with 3 players & 3,000 hours logged there was still so much to do. At least half prolly more
I only got to LEVEL 2 at the arcade. Obviously didn't know what I was doing because I did not know you could kill those bug things when they eat crystals.
I remember playing this when I was a kid on my PlayStation 2, had the whole atari anthology lots of cool arcade games on that thing. Major Havoc was my favorite if anyone remembers that shit your a legend
Does anyone know that there is a secret entrance on the first level that lets you skip a few levels. I may be mistaken but one of the levels has a skip
I had this installed on my computer growing up and i thought i made this game up in my head. Until today when i TH-camd "bear collecting gems platform game"
I had this on Atari 800, but this version looks way harder. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the arcade version of this used a trackball. Is that right?
Weird thing is, I can't imagine playing this without a trackball. The game is just so fast and responsive that the trackball seems to actually be the best input device for it, believe it or not.
I remember if you went inside that shadow door in the side of one of the castles and hit the jump button a bunch of times, you could warp to farther into the game.
It's a pity sake, sad crying shame, and misfortune that Mattel Electronics Intellevision has never made one single video arcade game machine. Since George Plimpton has passed off Atari as Mattel Electronics Intellevision's adversary.
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This is one game that you truly had to enjoy at the arcades
Agreed. The trackball is so integral to the controls that it's very difficult to play with anything else.
zazelby Like Sonic
The 2600 port was pure shit.
@@jamierose9095 the 2600 Port was probably s***. You needed the arcade so you can have that rolling ball to move
On ps2 it works pretty well with an analog stick
If you get the top score on this game, the letters you entered for your name/initials appear on the first stage the next time someone plays.
this game was trippy af the level design was crazy especially with the elevated parts of the level and the music and sound effects were jarring as hell
Fantastic video! When my Mom and I played this game together at the arcade, the way the music changed to ominous when the bees would come after you always scared the hell outta me as a kid!
Never realized how insane this game got in the later levels. Six year old me could never get past level 3.
Also, I've never seen a game give up.
They have this at my local arcade and it's usually vacant. Shwing!
Move over Sonic, The Crystal Castle Bear is the new fastest thing alive
His name is Bentley bear 😊
O from alphabet loe move over too
My parents got me this when I was 7 in 2007. It was a great childhood game. And I'd love to play it again someday.
they got you a goddamn arcade machine?
I was obsessed with this game in the arcades when I was younger. All the secret passages and exits...I have always regretted this is the one game I can't effectively play in any way in my home because I don't have a proper trackball. I even looked over the years for one, but they either were waaay too expensive or simply didn't work like the arcade one, which you could really put a free spin on, and was super-sensitive. :( I do have the game on a compilation disk but it's just not the same with a joypad.
_AAAHHH THE BEES! NO NOT THE BEES! THEY'RE STINGING MY EYES!_
The most terrifying enemy is a swarm of bees. Makes perfect sense knowing thay you play as a bear.
I agree with you. I used to play this, captain silver and karate champ when I was a kid at the arcades. Loved this game too and isnt the same without the trackerball. Got it on the switch. I can use the D pad and the thumb stick. The D pad is accurate but too slow, the thumb sick is faster but not accurate. The trackerball was fast and accurate. Shame. Unless I can buy a tracker ball for the switch? I doubt it
Trackball is a must. But yes, you need aracade type, like from hap (if i recall right). Mouse type trackballs do not work, u gotta move with force. Ive been able to get pretty good scores using a mouse, which i accelerate a lot, but accuracy isn't great.
This looks like it would make a great game to watch as a TAS.
freaking insane
Played this at Circle K in 1983 in Joshua Tree California Epic
Wow, that man wearing the bear outfit from The Shining can collect some balls,, sheesh! It's no wonder Shelley Duvall ran like hell from him...
I don't care what you say, the Swarm gave me anxiety regardless what level
Such an amazing game that still looks decent and looks like fun to play. I remember this one at the arcade room at our local SoCal pizzeria (Straw Hat Pizza). To be honest, this game was probably harder to play with the original trackball controller. Oh, the 80s...
When I was young, I used to play this all the time at an arcade in Houston's Astroworld.
I played it at the skating rink. I don't think I ever played it without wheels.
when i used to go camping, we had a pizza shop about a mile's walk away. This game was in that pizza shop.
I miss Astroworld! Damn Katrina housing plans
we probably ran into each other without knowing it
I also played this at the legendary Astroworld
I remember encountering this game at my dad's friend's house in 1996 (he owns an awful lot of pinball games and coin-op games that are set to free play). Pretty fun to play. I always loved how it played the Nutcracker music when you completed a level.
He was probably a pedophile. 😮
I loved this game. It had a huge red roller ball for the controller - really made it stand out from the other machines.
This game was a quarter eater! I have it for ps2 but without a trackball its so much harder. Nice job making it look easy! lol
Never thought I'd see a bear move so quick
Me too. 😍
We loved the challenge of this game and it came out a little later and we had quarters lined up to play, I hate those trees!
I loved this game in the 80s. Now I play it with my 5 yr old daughters and they love it too. Bought it on arcade1up
This game is free on IGN, as well as a couple of other major Atari titles such as adventure, centipede, asteroids, and a few others.
Such a classic title by atari!
This game & the entire Nutcracker Suite fits the Gem grabbing perfectly. PERFECT!!
JESUS CHRIST THIS GAME IS FAST
Funny that this game had an ending at all. Most early to mind 1980's arcade games just looped or recycled levels but were harder. This is a fun one, didn't know the bear had a name, Bentley the Bear. Somehow that doesn't fit. It's kinda amazing that an upgraded version to game hasn't been made or a sequel to the game wasn't produced. I don't remember too many people playing this game in the arcades I went to but that same could be said of Pac-man, Galaga, Q-bert and the like but I wasn't a teen in the early 1980's. When this game first came out, I bet a lot of people played it but my perspective of arcades comes from my remembrance of around 1985-ish. By 1985/6, a lot more advanced arcade games were out and Crystal Castles was relegated to the back areas of the arcades I frequented, where there was never a crowd.
Why can't Crystal Castles get a reboot or a remake? Q*Bert got remade, and so did Frogger, Space Invaders, Centipede and Breakout. But we don't see a remake for Crystal Castles.
It got remade into a band. 😄
One of those perfectly odd but fun games of the 80s! Played it at the local comic book shop when I could steal quarters of of dads car and jacket 🤣
I play this game at home on the Atari Flashback while listening to the song Magic Spells by Crystal Castles on repeat. Its the only way to get the full experience.
This was the best arcade game of all time. The cabinet was gorgeous, the graphics and colors were fantastic and the music was bitchen! I would love to own the original arcade game!
I remember this classic game. Thanos wasn't the only one after the Infinity Stones.
According to urban legend, Crystal Castles started out as a planned sequel to Asteroids called Toporoids. You moved your ship across the isometric playfield shooting asteroids falling from the sky.
I remember thinking the gem eaters were helping me
Growing up we had a CD with a bunch of the classics on it. This game was one of them. Looking at this video it shows me that the game tries really hard later on to make you fail. But I imagine the same is said for a bunch of Arcade Games. I didn't grow up when Arcades were a thing so I had to rely on the CDs and Systems my Dad had.
This is a masterclass.
I have this on an arcade cabinet with centipede millipede and missle defense.
Oh shit you brought back some real good memories from my childhood
So the music band name came from this game!?
I was obsessed with this game in the 80’s. Now, I don’t know why
A bit late, but this was pretty interesting! That one, with the descending slope in the front, genius, - wonder why 10 years newer games didn't make use of the technique, it looks so dynamic. Axillary perspective often looks very static and boring
Good memories... I remembered this from my younger years at a Dairy Queen.
this game is crazy I was playing it last weeknd at a barcade in manhatan
Played this on a PSOne collection of arcade hits. I believe it used a track ball for controlling Bentley.
Correct, the machine had a trackball for the control.
This game used to scare me With The weird brown tornado thing and the sound it made
I had no idea that this had an actual end to it. I think it was one of the first to do so?
I mean, some earlier games (such as Konami’s Scramble) gave you a congratulations screen but the game would just continue on after that at a higher difficulty. Also Atari’s Superman was technically the earliest game to have a definitive end where the game is actually over afterwards, but Crystal Castles was the first *arcade* game to do that (console games and arcade games have always kinda had their differences, and they most likely started putting endings in arcade games too because skilled gamers could play for an entire day or even more on one quarter in games that didn’t end (such as Pac-Man or Donkey Kong), potentially hurting profits made by the game.
Crystal Castles will be remembered as one of the first games to include an ending (like Fantasy that will be remembered as one of the first games to include continues).
So, this is basically Pac-Man with stairs. And hyper speed.
And a track ball, and honey
And those angry bees!!!
And some more enemies. Like the gem eaters.
"I told you about stairs, bro"
And indestructible trees
Its a weird strategy too with the enemies with how many cruystals to give up to the enemy to kepp you from getting killed and still finishing the bard
Knowing you can kill the green mono-eye things when they're eating a gem is a game changer.
Wow, this game actually has an _end?_ Not to mention the difficulty of everything by the time you get that far.
How many games played Beethoven's 3rd symphony?
Memories of 1988 in 6th grade playing this at Burger Town (formerly Burger Chef) dancing in my head!
Loved this in the Arcade and also Spy Hunter and Gauntlet
Gauntlet never ended. I owned the arcade port on original Xbox, and with 3 players & 3,000 hours logged there was still so much to do. At least half prolly more
@@drowningin A quarter eater for sure
@@dajosee it had a save system, a custom password right?
@@drowningin Only ever played it in the Arcades and a local Pizza Parlor
@@dajosee I know for arcades it had a way to save progress. It gave you a password that when reentered in any gauntlet machine had all your progress
Neat isometric designs.
The sound of the tornado always tripped me out.
That’s a swarm of bees lol
@@foust71BEE TORNADO!!
used to play this as a child in the arcade!!!
such a classic 👏👏
This game is bananas!!!
Castle Park, Hawaii... "You like scam?"
I only got to LEVEL 2 at the arcade. Obviously didn't know what I was doing because I did not know you could kill those bug things when they eat crystals.
1:37 when the video actually starts
BANJO KAZOOIE: ...
BENTLEY BEAR: "I AM YOUR FATHER."
BANJO KAZOOIE: "...well, that explains a lot."
I've finished the Arcade Game with a lot of Coins dropped
Trackball ftw!
Ow do!
Shoutout to @Weird Video Games / @heisanevilgenius
I used to play a clone of this called Gubble.
I remember playing this when I was a kid on my PlayStation 2, had the whole atari anthology lots of cool arcade games on that thing. Major Havoc was my favorite if anyone remembers that shit your a legend
Wow. This looked better when I was a kid
This was so infuriating when playing casually. So hard to control the bear with the trackball
I remember having this on a PSX disc that was a small collection of games that included this, but i can't remember the name.
So would this be technically very first collectathon 3D platformer? :P (jk I know its isometric)
Does anyone else sing in their head after every level “Smurfberry crunch is fun to eat”?
Does anyone know that there is a secret entrance on the first level that lets you skip a few levels. I may be mistaken but one of the levels has a skip
Ya you go to the back corner and jump on level 1 and perhaps another level deeper into the game
2:30 now replace that skeleton with a Dancing Revenant from DooM II! (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...DooT.)
I had a lot of fun with this game. Really good early arcade game.
I guess I remember this game differently. I loved CC back then. Watching this? I should have saved my quarters and invested in apple stock
Played it often on atari 800xl.
I love this game, I have a arcade machine that had this game and it's the best
One of my favs along with Tempest.
I had this installed on my computer growing up and i thought i made this game up in my head. Until today when i TH-camd "bear collecting gems platform game"
what does it mean when you're wearing that wizard hat?
Temporary Inulnerability
@@yurikendal4868 just like the stars in mario
It’s used to kill the witch but also makes you invulnerable. You can’t kill the gem eaters while wearing the hat.
What are the names of the bowling balls with faces?
‘Crystal Balls’ according to the manual
I had this on Atari 800, but this version looks way harder. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the arcade version of this used a trackball. Is that right?
shuichiboy Yep, it did have a trackball.
Weird thing is, I can't imagine playing this without a trackball. The game is just so fast and responsive that the trackball seems to actually be the best input device for it, believe it or not.
I believe you. It was a good game with the joystick, but I reckon it would be a lot more interesting with the trackball.
Yes.
dude that fucking bear is faster than the flash on crack
its marble madness but with a bear
I remember if you went inside that shadow door in the side of one of the castles and hit the jump button a bunch of times, you could warp to farther into the game.
Sunset Park brought me here
Didn't they make a terrible version of this for the Atari 2600? I seem to recall begging for that for months and finally getting it for Christmas.
kwijung it was good actually
It’s great
There should be a movie about this game
This game was hard to control the bear because you had a ball and not a joystick.
It's a pity sake, sad crying shame, and misfortune that Mattel Electronics Intellevision has never made one single video arcade game machine. Since George Plimpton has passed off Atari as Mattel Electronics Intellevision's adversary.
Hella graphic for back then.
This game really would’ve benefited from a continue feature………
Isn’t this also the title of a song?
BLACKAXE900 Is the nutcracker music.
Migdo14 I thought it was crimewave
A band. Without the 'S' anyway.
Marble Madness
my aunt legit has this game at her house
O_O Is an A.I. playing this game? D:
Has to be
Loved this game. Can't recall my high scores, but i think high 800k somewhere The ported version just don't do this game justice.
I like the 2600 version too
I heard the death sound a couple times but Bentley didn't die he used savestates,
Cheats, sir
Cool !
Where can I get this game it was my childhood fav
Devil World's music?
looks cool
This has to be tool assisted.