Atari 8-bit - Crystalware - 1982

Haunted Palace (The)

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Rating2.8/10

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Greg B.28 Apr 2011
Yeah, Fantasyland was actually pretty good and was certainly unique...IF you were lucky enough to actually get a readable disk from Crystalware - many people did not. All of their games had great concepts and all of them also exceeded the reach of every programmer who wrote them; the fact that they were in BASIC didn't help matters. There was also another game by these guys I owned which crashed every time you tried to restart the game after you died - which told me that nobody sat through the entire game even once before they shipped it.
jcat26 Apr 2011
Some of the Crystalware offerings weren't too shabby (Fantasyland 2041 comes to mind), however, this is a complete mess. Has anyone tried this? I don't think this game was even finished? Just walk from room to room and nothing you interact with works. The awful text-only title page isn't even centered properly, which should give you an idea of what you're in for. John Bell was no Mike Potter.