Takes me back to my misspent youth! I was a biochemist postdoc and used to play it at night in the lab while my reactions were running. Perfect way to fill the time. We had a shared lab computer that was heavily used (not just for video games) and to improve my perforance on CQ I used to dismantle the mouse and clean the trackball and roller bars with ethanol wipes. It made all the difference....
Oh the memories! I must have wasted 75% of my time at work (when the boss was out) playing this game - we used to have tournaments! The sound effects are the best part. Thanks for posting this-just hearing the audio made me nostalgic to those early days on the mac. nem!
The wife had a loaner MacII from work for a while (back when she was a Hypercard developer in her spare time :) ) . Between this and Shufflepuck I spent way more time on the Mac than I should've. Might even have helped delay my graduation a semester :D . Gotta get my emulator on so I can play this classic. :D
Regarding the “female” moan, it has always sounded more like a male to me… As a child I though it was just yet another silly sound effect (like the “hello”s), nothing more. Now I'm willing to admit that it might be trying to sound dirty, but I still think it's probably recorded by a male and played back faster to increase the pitch.
John C. Ardussi I knew it! =) BTW, I see that you seem to be involved in a remake of Crystal Quest and wish you all the best in that project; it is certainly a classic game (and one of the main reasons to power on my Macintosh Classic nowadays).
I had totally forgotten this game until I watched a compilation of Mac games and the instant i heard the sound effects the memories came flooding back. Wow i never noticed how suggestive that sound effect was. Seemed totally normal when i was 11 years old or so lol
I remember using Resedit to modify a peers Mac default sound for Mac disk insertion to the gate moan from this game. Made me change it back before he got into trouble.
whoa.. i never thought I'd ever figure out what this game was called. It's been such an ethereal memory for me from getting to poke around on the family (rather, my dad's) macintosh classic, among many other random games that I wish I could extrapolate the name of from my visual memories of them, since it's all I have to go by... I was probably like 3-4 y.o. the first time I played around on that mac. It was entrancing despite how simple the graphics were.
I just spent way too much time getting emotionally invested in this player's performance. I haven't seen this game since 1993, and I wondered if it were on TH-cam, just to sample those ridiculously silly and inappropriate sound effects. Once again, the Internet did not disappoint.
I ran Mini vMac in full screen to record that, full screen seems to work better for mouse driven games i've tried, i also have the cursor speed set to 'tablet' in the mac control panel
These days that moan would get the game rated M, and rightfully so. I played the game as a child and it was years before I stopped cutting cats in half for my satanic rituals.
OMG I was hooked on this in the 80s in my 30s-- kids played it and then gradually the last dozen scores on the board were MINE, all under different monikers. The last one was 'no glasses' at over three million, and I had to quit cold turkey. Watching/hearing this was triggering :D
Dude. SHOOT!!!!!!!!!!!! Flood the zone in a Hail of bullets!! My brother and I would have strangled you back in the day if we saw someone playing like this!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Anyone remember alternative sound samples from film(s)? "Use the Force Luke" etc :) Oh the hours wasted thru the night mastering the inertia mouse. Could never play as fast as shown here.
LOL I just bought the steam version. I had to call bullshit on the orgasm sound that plays when you beat the level. I didnt' remember that at all when I was a kid. Well this video confirmed it. It did in fact make an orgasm sound when you beat the level. Kid me just didn't make that association at the time LMAO. Those crystal collecting sounds though are exactly as I remember. OMG the nostalgia. It could also be that the sounds were a little different through the old school mac speaker versus the modern high quality gamer headphones. Those had to have some weird effects going on. Goddamn this game is actually quite hard. I thought I'd destroy at this game now that I'm an adult playing it again years later. I tried a web emulator version, and the steam version. Holy shit, this game is tough. It's the whole velocity controlled by mouse thing that makes it so tough. I somehow thought, through false memories, that it was just a mouse game, and there's no way this game would be hard. I was a complete idiot for struggling at it as a kid. Well I was wrong. I remember as a kid I had this on my mac at home. And a school computer had it too. I showed it to all my classmates and we spent hours on the little classroom macintosh playing Crystal Quest, and making fun of the sound effects and amazed when we got super far. Goddamn this game was amazing. I actually played this before doom in the 90s. I don't remember exactly, did the school computer have this game, or was it donated by my parents to my classroom. Either way, it was some random mac my parents found on the streets of SF when we moved from Russia to SF back in the 90s. OMG the nostalgia. That's just how things were in the 90s. You could find a random free PC on the street, take it home, and it wasn't locked by secure accounts or anything. It was just yours and whatever it came with was yours too.
Also to add build up bombs and use them wildly in waves 21 and 22... those boomerang spirals give u a whopping 10K points for each one on screen killed either using bomb or shooting at them but b careful as they counterattack by exploding and the only way to dodge is going in between two pieces as they separate thus b sure you're at a safe distance when killing them for a gr8 boost in points and lives unless u get uber lucky and the counterattack misses u by inches that's happened to me a good number of times lol... I miss the Mac we had..
One thing I also noticed about them.. if two r shot at the same exact time only ONE will explode outward from where it was killed ... it's like it's limit is one kill per screen ... like say if ones exploding and u happen to hit another b4 it disappears... that second one will b the one that explodes outward til it's offscreen... I guess the sprite limits for an exploding spiral is just 1 since it's such a simple game... I guess lol
Your mouse seems less slippery than in the original. I remember there was a lot more glide and it was harder to change directions. I still have a functioning MAC2 with this game on it.
Technically speaking the game only has 26 waves bc after 26 it gets super crazy... I used to save state each level... lol I quit after a few levels past wave 100... there's no ending to the game and it gets super crazy w.all 16 types of enemies attacking u from both generators.... 😣😥😣😐😑
Shouldn't have died with bombs left over. There was one critter that if you bombed it, you actually got points for (I think it was the one that exploded when you shot it...)
I am looking for a emulator just to play this game, well it was really the crystal ryder the first version the one I played, where can I find this game?
Hated clearing a level and dying on the gate.
the strangest and most hilariously suggestive sound effects ever in a classic game
Absolutely loved the sound effects as a 5-year old or whatever I was 😂
How did this never occur to me?
All the remakes took the best sounds out , the pussification continues
The greatest game I ever played on my Dad's old Mac. Thank you for posting!
Takes me back to my misspent youth! I was a biochemist postdoc and used to play it at night in the lab while my reactions were running. Perfect way to fill the time. We had a shared lab computer that was heavily used (not just for video games) and to improve my perforance on CQ I used to dismantle the mouse and clean the trackball and roller bars with ethanol wipes. It made all the difference....
Same! Our lab spent so many hours playing this in the 90s when I was a grad student… Happy days
Oh the memories! I must have wasted 75% of my time at work (when the boss was out) playing this game - we used to have tournaments! The sound effects are the best part. Thanks for posting this-just hearing the audio made me nostalgic to those early days on the mac. nem!
I remember discovering this in the 5th grade computer lab on an Apple IIGS. I somehow didn't recall the sounds though. Probably was too young
The wife had a loaner MacII from work for a while (back when she was a Hypercard developer in her spare time :) ) . Between this and Shufflepuck I spent way more time on the Mac than I should've. Might even have helped delay my graduation a semester :D . Gotta get my emulator on so I can play this classic. :D
Regarding the “female” moan, it has always sounded more like a male to me… As a child I though it was just yet another silly sound effect (like the “hello”s), nothing more. Now I'm willing to admit that it might be trying to sound dirty, but I still think it's probably recorded by a male and played back faster to increase the pitch.
Arkku It was a male. It was Patrick who created the game.
John C. Ardussi I knew it! =) BTW, I see that you seem to be involved in a remake of Crystal Quest and wish you all the best in that project; it is certainly a classic game (and one of the main reasons to power on my Macintosh Classic nowadays).
@@Arkku He was!? Did it come out?
@@evshrug Looks like it did, yes store.steampowered.com/app/497510/Crystal_Quest_Classic/
I had totally forgotten this game until I watched a compilation of Mac games and the instant i heard the sound effects the memories came flooding back. Wow i never noticed how suggestive that sound effect was. Seemed totally normal when i was 11 years old or so lol
The sounds of the crystals makes me feel incredibly nostalgic
This was my FAVORITE game as a kid. Me and my best friend would play it for hours.
This game was my freakin childhood. Freakin played this for hours! :)
I remember using Resedit to modify a peers Mac default sound for Mac disk insertion to the gate moan from this game. Made me change it back before he got into trouble.
NotSoBiggie - Awesome. I remember using ResEdit to do similar things back in the 90s.
whoa.. i never thought I'd ever figure out what this game was called. It's been such an ethereal memory for me from getting to poke around on the family (rather, my dad's) macintosh classic, among many other random games that I wish I could extrapolate the name of from my visual memories of them, since it's all I have to go by... I was probably like 3-4 y.o. the first time I played around on that mac. It was entrancing despite how simple the graphics were.
I was 12-13 yo when I played this game. I had no idea that was an orgasm sound. LOL. Anyone remember Lode Runner?
I was so obsessed with this game back in 1994 that I actually had to permanently delete it from my workplace Mac
J'avais 5-6 ans quand je jouais à ce super jeu de l'époque !! Des heures et des heures 👍👍👍
I was totally addicted to this, got up to levels somewhere in the 90s I think.
Man, this brings back some serious memories.
Wave 5. Protocol was you played it for 20 minutes shooting garbage clumps until you had 15 extra lives.
Damn, wish I knew that.
Bah. I didn’t need no extra lives. Just fire away every wave until your fingers fall off and you’ll go far!
This game brings back so many memories. Someone needs to make a version for today's day and age and whatnot. :)
Lord Zephyr They did a combo port and remake for XBLA shortly after the 360 came out.
'Geometry Wars' is like a new age Crystal Quest
there's also xquest, which can be thought of as a more or less faithful clone for DOS with nicer graphics.
They made remakes but the awesomely Great sound effects got replaced 😕
I just spent way too much time getting emotionally invested in this player's performance. I haven't seen this game since 1993, and I wondered if it were on TH-cam, just to sample those ridiculously silly and inappropriate sound effects. Once again, the Internet did not disappoint.
I ran Mini vMac in full screen to record that, full screen seems to work better for mouse driven games i've tried, i also have the cursor speed set to 'tablet' in the mac control panel
These days that moan would get the game rated M, and rightfully so. I played the game as a child and it was years before I stopped cutting cats in half for my satanic rituals.
This is one of the first games I remember playing.. thanks for keeping this one alive.
I didn’t realise at the time what privilege it was to have this at that time lol what a classic
So cool you have that video! I played that game when I was a kid 😂 on my dads computer. That was nice for the year!
OMG I was hooked on this in the 80s in my 30s-- kids played it and then gradually the last dozen scores on the board were MINE, all under different monikers. The last one was 'no glasses' at over three million, and I had to quit cold turkey. Watching/hearing this was triggering :D
I'd have been embarrassed to lose the game with eight bombs still on board; I always thought you should run out of bombs before lives.
Dude. SHOOT!!!!!!!!!!!! Flood the zone in a Hail of bullets!! My brother and I would have strangled you back in the day if we saw someone playing like this!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Played this everyday at the boys & girls club in the late 80’s early 90’s. Wish I could play this on my ps4
Hit the bomb, hit the bomb!! What a walk down memory lane. :)
Remember the game fondly but don't recall these sound effects at all.
We played w alternative sound also. Samples from a film. ??? "Use the force Luke" :)
I killed countless hours on this game in undergrad - great memories!
I remember this game I used to play it all the time.
This is the only video game I have ever liked, not that I've played many.
I don't get why you didn't shoot ever. I would always shoot almost the entire time so I'd get rid of enemies because it made the levels a lot easier.
Anyone remember alternative sound samples from film(s)?
"Use the Force Luke" etc :)
Oh the hours wasted thru the night mastering the inertia mouse. Could never play as fast as shown here.
So many memories!!
Played the hell outta this as a kid.
LOVED this game as a kid
LOL I just bought the steam version. I had to call bullshit on the orgasm sound that plays when you beat the level. I didnt' remember that at all when I was a kid. Well this video confirmed it. It did in fact make an orgasm sound when you beat the level. Kid me just didn't make that association at the time LMAO.
Those crystal collecting sounds though are exactly as I remember. OMG the nostalgia.
It could also be that the sounds were a little different through the old school mac speaker versus the modern high quality gamer headphones. Those had to have some weird effects going on.
Goddamn this game is actually quite hard. I thought I'd destroy at this game now that I'm an adult playing it again years later. I tried a web emulator version, and the steam version. Holy shit, this game is tough. It's the whole velocity controlled by mouse thing that makes it so tough. I somehow thought, through false memories, that it was just a mouse game, and there's no way this game would be hard. I was a complete idiot for struggling at it as a kid. Well I was wrong. I remember as a kid I had this on my mac at home. And a school computer had it too. I showed it to all my classmates and we spent hours on the little classroom macintosh playing Crystal Quest, and making fun of the sound effects and amazed when we got super far. Goddamn this game was amazing. I actually played this before doom in the 90s. I don't remember exactly, did the school computer have this game, or was it donated by my parents to my classroom. Either way, it was some random mac my parents found on the streets of SF when we moved from Russia to SF back in the 90s. OMG the nostalgia. That's just how things were in the 90s. You could find a random free PC on the street, take it home, and it wasn't locked by secure accounts or anything. It was just yours and whatever it came with was yours too.
Also to add build up bombs and use them wildly in waves 21 and 22... those boomerang spirals give u a whopping 10K points for each one on screen killed either using bomb or shooting at them but b careful as they counterattack by exploding and the only way to dodge is going in between two pieces as they separate thus b sure you're at a safe distance when killing them for a gr8 boost in points and lives unless u get uber lucky and the counterattack misses u by inches that's happened to me a good number of times lol... I miss the Mac we had..
One thing I also noticed about them.. if two r shot at the same exact time only ONE will explode outward from where it was killed ... it's like it's limit is one kill per screen ... like say if ones exploding and u happen to hit another b4 it disappears... that second one will b the one that explodes outward til it's offscreen... I guess the sprite limits for an exploding spiral is just 1 since it's such a simple game... I guess lol
Funny, I don't remember the female moan. Either I had some version without it (unlikely), or I was too young for it to mean anything to me. Weird.
we didnt have sound on the computer. also first game i ever played
We had alternative sounds sampled from a film.
wave 26 makes me hurt for you ... and btw, a very nice wave 27.
Ok childhood feels strong with this one !
Where can I find this ?!
1:40 I love that sound. XD
28 seems to be the cursed level, I usually get only exactly that far.
In the good old days it wasn't that difficult to get much further because the game started to lag horribly after level 25.
Skadu Skitai I'm actually playing it on a real Macintosh Classic, so maybe I'm spoiled by accurate modern mice. =)
Cool! :-)
Used to play this so much
Wasn’t there a sequel to this? I love that the pilot of “our” ship is a cow 🤣
Wave 28 - good play!
Your mouse seems less slippery than in the original. I remember there was a lot more glide and it was harder to change directions. I still have a functioning MAC2 with this game on it.
Technically speaking the game only has 26 waves bc after 26 it gets super crazy... I used to save state each level... lol I quit after a few levels past wave 100... there's no ending to the game and it gets super crazy w.all 16 types of enemies attacking u from both generators.... 😣😥😣😐😑
It's supposed to be a damn baby!
I play this game on a Macintosh Se
Does anyone know if this game exists today for macbook or iphone???
Shouldn't have died with bombs left over. There was one critter that if you bombed it, you actually got points for (I think it was the one that exploded when you shot it...)
I am looking for a emulator just to play this game, well it was really the crystal ryder the first version the one I played, where can I find this game?
ditto ditto and ditto
I've been trying to get this to work on Mini vMac, but every time before I start the game it gives me an error. Where did you get the DSK file from?
+Ian Guebert I already had it on disk, I'm running it with system 6.0.8 on my Mini vMac disk image so you may want to try that system
ELEVEN...ELEVEN...ELEVEN...ELEVEN...(GIRL MOAN)
There is a Kickstarter for a new version: www.tinyurl.com/crystalquestks
Where can I get this game? I used to have it but I think the company that made it went out of business... any ideas?
Zephyr Tiger i have it on xbox 360! There is an new version two!👍
yannick9965 your joking! Really? :O
Who wants to play it again:
classicreload.com/mac-crystalquest.html