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[Albert]

/images/news/RetroTimes3.jpgIssue #74 of Retrogaming Times is now online for your reading enjoyment. Highlights in this issue include:

• Intellivision 25-in-1 The Review
  
• The Many Faces of Crystal Castles
  
• Retrogaming Commercial Vault
  
• Salvation for the Atari 5200 Owner
  
• Letters to the Editor

You can find these articles and more at Tomorrow's Heroes.

[t.skid]

The Crystal Castles article is very interesting; talk about the various home versions, also the 'double' version for the C64: the one from Atari(US Gold), and the Thundervision version; last one, probably the best home version ever of Crystal Castles.

[NE146]

I was ready to jump on him for his "have not" ranking of 2600 CC.. but I guess upon reading it, he did give it some proper due.

[Callipygous]

Yeah, CC is pretty advanced stuff for the 2600. Could not really rate it above the computer versions.

On the Atari 8-bit version, the article seems to indicate 1984 as a release date. This maybe the copyright date, but the cartridge, IIRC , came out in 1988. Article also states that a disk version was available. Does anyone have further info about that? Was it released on disk in Europe?

[Randy California]

The only official version is the XE cartridge release (with intro screen, slightly enhanced graphics and secret warp). The 1984 game is a bootleg (seems complete though) and was never published.

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