Time Crystal  (Preview)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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1985 Sachs Enterprise
Status: Preview, Findability: 2/5

Coding: Jim Sachs
Graphics: Jim Sachs
Sound: Unknown

Its not often we get a new game to add to the archive which is from way back in 1985…

As you can see, the game’s graphics are gorgeous, and way ahead of their time for a C64…. now I could imagine the graphic rating of this being around 100% in Zzap 64…. :)….

Some really lovely animations in the preview, with a really nice intro with some eery music to go with it. Its kinda like a Paul Norman game, with nice graphics.

Its a very small preview…. and it seems to be very bugged…. and when you die, you cannot restart (or can you?)… but all in all, it looked very promising.

The game was started by Jim Sachs and never finished. As you will see from the demo, he did excellent graphics work, but he quickly left the C64 for the Amiga. Apparently he went on to work at Cinemaware.

The game never progressed further than the preview here, basically Jim tells GTW that piracy in the C64 market made him realize that it wasn’t worth finishing the project.

Hopefully Jim will shed some light some day on his old production… Now Jim is famous for producing some brilliant Fish Tank simulators. A recent interview was also done with Jim which you can find here and talks about the title.   ( http://www.pcmuseum.ca/sachs1.asp )

Case closed, this is it with Time Crystal…

Contributions: Bayban, Jim Sachs



http://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/time-crystal/
