Crystalis
Crystalis 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.
| Crystalis | |
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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 |
| Release | Nintendo Entertainment System
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing, Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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.