Crystalis

Crystalis
Box art from the original NES release.
Developer(s)SNK (NES)
Nintendo Software Technology (Game Boy Color)
Digital Eclipse (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One)
Publisher(s)SNK (NES)
Nintendo (Game Boy Color)
NIS America (Nintendo Switch)
Director(s)Kazuto Kohno
Producer(s)Kazuto Kohno
Programmer(s)Yukio Gu
F. Sasami
Satoru Okada
Artist(s)T. Furuta
M. Yamashita
Yoshihisa Maeda
T. Tokyo
Writer(s)J. Satoh
H. Kino
Kiyoji Tomita
Composer(s)Yoko Osaka
Platform(s)Nintendo Entertainment System
Game Boy Color
Nintendo Switch
ReleaseNintendo Entertainment System
  • JP: April 13, 1990
  • NA: July 1990
Game Boy Color
  • NA: June 26, 2000
Genre(s)Action role-playing, Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Crystalis[a] is a 1990 action role-playing action-adventure video game produced by SNK for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The original Nintendo Entertainment System version has been re-released via the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One.

The game begins with a young magician awakening from the cryogenic sleep he was placed in by the villains of the Great War before nuclear war rained down in the year 1997. Even though he is unable to recall his name or who he was, he exits the Mezame Shrine and discovers that he may be the key to save this world from destruction. Aided by four wise sages and a mysterious woman, he rises up against the tyrannical Draygonian Empire to ensure that humanity ultimately does not repeat the Great War.
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