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Crystal Caves is a video game written and published by Apogee Software. In the game, you are Mylo Steamwitz, a space miner who wants to get rich quick. In order to invest in some ridiculous get-rich-quick schemes, including, but not limited to, starting a "Twibble" farm (compare with Tribble), he travels to the Altairian star system, and ventures into the caves in the planets there to harvest large, naturally grown crystals. Image File history File links Crystal Caves This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game. ...
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Milo comes with a rocket launcher (or a humorously large pistol. It is hard to tell) and has to jump and shoot his way through the levels to collect all crystals. The game has a number of identifiying features, such as a gravity inversion powerup, and an unexpected death when you accidentally shoot out a level's air generator. Shoulder-launched weapons avoid the problem of recoil by directing all exhaust out the rear of the launch tube A shoulder-launched missile weapon is a weapon that fires a projectile at a target, yet is small enough to be carried by one person, and fired while held on one...
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Like most Apogee games, this game was released in three episodes (known as volumes), the first one being shareware. It was not very popular, because its graphics, animation, gameplay, and level design were inferior to those of the Commander Keen series that was released around the same time. The three volumes are called: The Trouble with Twibbles, Slugging It Out, and Mylo Versus the Supernova. Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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Crystal Caves uses the same game engine as Secret Agent, which was released about a year later. A game engine is the core software component of a computer or video game or other interactive application with real-time graphics. ...
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On October 24, 2005, Apogee released a maintenance patch to fix a bug in the game. The bug sets the user's system clock backwards 100 years after running any of the three episodes on some systems using Windows XP. As the game was released 14 years and one day earlier, Apogee may now hold the record for longest time between an initial game release and a maintenance patch. October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ...
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Trivia
Frank Maddin, the game's designer, found out that David Gerrold, the script writer for the Star Trek episode The Trouble With Tribbles (which the game's first episode parodied) played Crystal Caves, and referred to it in a computer magazine he wrote for.[1] David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman (January 24, 1944), is an award-winning science fiction author who started his career in 1966 as a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series Star Trek. ...
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The Trouble With Tribbles is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast on December 29, 1967 and repeated June 21, 1968. ...
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