The Kristal | |
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Developer(s) | Fissionchip Software |
Publisher(s) | Addictive Games Cinemaware |
Director(s) | Michael Sutin |
Producer(s) | Mark Pearce |
Designer(s) | Rodney Wyatt Michael Sutin |
Programmer(s) | Alan Butcher |
Artist(s) | Michael Haigh |
Writer(s) | Michael Sutin |
Composer(s) | Rodney Wyatt Mickey Keen |
Platform(s) | Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS |
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Genre(s) | Adventure game |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Kristal is an adventure game first released in 1989 for the Amiga computer. It was later released for the Atari ST and MS-DOS. It was developed by the UK-based company Fissionchip Software, and published in Europe by Addictive Games and in the US by Cinemaware. Unusually for a video game, the game is based on a play, The Kristal of Konos, written in 1976; the authors of the play worked together with the game developers and the play was never shown in theatres or on film before the game's release. A dialog introducing the setting was recorded by Patrick Moore, who introduced both the game and play.
The player takes the role of a pirate named Dancis Frake, on a mission to recover the "Kristal" on behalf of the Kring of Meltoca.
The game features a number of different classic game genres merged: fighting, space flight/combat, and (to a limited extent) LucasArts-style point-and-click adventuring.