I played the Crystal Maze PC game years ago. When I was quite small indeed, I went to the local shop and picked this up for £5. It was one of the best purchases I made. It ties in quite closely with the television series, which I loved. You must select your team, then enter the Crystal Maze and play games in four zones - Futuristic, Aztec, Ocean and Medieval - in order to win crystals. These crystals give you time in the Crystal Dome, where you must collect as many golden tickets as possible, and avoid the silver tickets.
I played the Crystal Maze PC game years ago. When I was quite small indeed, I went to the local shop and picked this up for £5. It was one of the best purchases I made. It ties in quite closely with the television series, which I loved. You must select your team, then enter the Crystal Maze and play games in four zones - Futuristic, Aztec, Ocean and Medieval - in order to win crystals. These crystals give you time in the Crystal Dome, where you must collect as many golden tickets as possible, and avoid the silver tickets.
The puzzles, for which you must select a person on your team to play it, are of four types - Physical, which is a mini-platform game, Mental,
which involves a puzzle of some sort, Skill, which unsurprisingly requires a skill, and Mystery, which can be either a find-the-clues game or another random type of game. Fail and your person are usually locked in, and can be left there or bought back by paying one crystal. Succeed, and you receive a crystal. On reaching the Dome, you have to use the mouse and click on the fast-moving gold tickets whilst avoiding the also-fast-moving silver tickets. Each crystal you collect grants you five seconds in the Dome.
Unlike the television programme, each player has a turn in the Dome, so the more players you have, the better your score will be. The graphics were good at the time, but are nothing special now. Sound wasn't great, with buzzes, blips and the Crystal Maze theme tune a lot - you'll learn to love it - and the mouse control could be infuriating when you clicked on something and it didn't recognise it, but the games were great fun. I highly recommend this. It reflects the television show extremely well.
My tips:
1. Make sure you configure the mouse controls properly.
2. The choice of characters at the start of the game is not just there for show. Each "character" has strengths and weaknesses. Some will be good at Mental games, some at Physical. Learn who is good at which.
3. The Physical games are hard. Learn how far the dude jumps when you press the space bar.
4. The games in the Aztec zone where you have to launch yellow things into the mouths of the statues and where you have to catch the falling yellow crystals are hard. Practice them.
