Name: Dark Crystal, The
Alternative title: Hi-Res Adventure #6 - The Dark Crystal
Platform: Atari 800
Region: USA
Media: Disk
Controller: Keyboard
Genre: Adventure - Graphic - Text
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1984
Developer: Yosemite Software Products
Publisher: Sierra On-Line
Players: 1
Programmer: Chris Iden
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The Dark Crystal is closely based on Jim Henson's film of the same name. The game is set in Thra, a world with three suns, which come together every thousand years in an event known as "The Great Conjunction". The player controls Jen, the last survivor of the Gelfings, a race of mole-like people. He must find a dark crystal and its broken shard, and repair it to end the reign of a tyrannical lord.

Like other installments of the Hi-Res Adventures series, the game is entirely text-based, with non-animated graphics to illustrate the areas. Movement between areas and interaction with the game world is performed by typing commands consisting of either one or two words (a combination of a verb and an object).


http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/hi-res-adventure-6-the-dark-crystal
