Mage: The Enchanted Crystals (2012)

Join Wizzy in his first adventure!

While working on a powerful spell,Wizzy's father was being watched by others. As a precaution he captured the spell inside a crystal and divided it into 4 pieces, which he buried inside the mines, just south of your village. It is now up to you to collect these pieces and bring them together inside the enchanted chest to ensure the spell doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Game features:
- Playable on Videopac and Odyssey2 consoles
- High resolution background on Videopac+ consoles
- Multicolored backgrounds and sprites
- Digitized speech using The voice add-on
- Internet highscore uploading
- Online rewards system

Internet Highscore uploading:
After completing the game you will receive a score based upon the speed in which you have completed the game and a highscore code. This code will allow you to upload your highscores to the internet. Now you can compare your scores with players worldwide!

Go to www.revival-studios.com/highscores to enter your name and code.

Online rewards:
Besides getting a high score game, there are also rewards to be earned for
performing specific tasks in the game. This game contains the following rewards:

[silver]         Finally! - Finish the game
[silver]         Close call - Finish the game with less than 1 minute to spare
[gold]           Mazerunner - Finish the game in 5 minutes or less

Besides uploading your highscores as mentioned above, you will also
be able to update your earned rewards online. Rewards are added to any
rewards achieved at an earlier time, so there is no need to earn all
rewards in a single playthrough/session.

Reviews:
This game was reviewed in Retrogamer Magazine, issue 108 and scored a nice 90% , and a retrogamer-sizzler award.

Release information:

This game is available on cartridge with a limited release of 100 copies.

The game package contains of a Cartridge, manual and index card only. The plastic case can be offered for 5 euros.

The game has a limited release of 100 copies.

Price: 39 euros.

To order your copy, please mail to:  s a l e s @ r e v i v a l - s t u d i o s . c o m

Shipping&Handling is a fixed fee of 7 euros worldwide.

 

Collectors Edition:
The collectors edition has been released in a serialised run of 20 pieces.

The Collectors Edition consists of the folowing items:

- A Treasure Chest 
- A introductional letter from the Wizard of Odyssey (Wizzy's Dad)
- A photograph from the Wizard of Odyssey (Wizzy's Dad)
- A map of the mines
- A Velvet bag with 4 actual gemstones
- Game cartridge with unique serial-numbered cartridge 
- Manual and index label

Collector edition sold out, but regular edition (run of 100 copies) still for sale, see above!

Making of interview:
This article/interview about the making of Mage: The Enchanted Crystals was published in Retrogamer Magazine, issue 111. Click here to read it. 

Credits:

All programming and graphics by: Martijn Wenting
Thanks to Rene van den Enden for tech.support.