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Crystal Tower is an old doujin X68K game credited to Master Piece in 1990 (ADON), which seems to be affiliated with "Monyons", that primarily works on doujin and/or freeware games distributed at the Comic Market, though Monyons also put out commercial games and other works from time to time. The authors mainly program as a hobby and are relatively laid-back and carefree.

The game is a simple puzzle game where your objective is to collect all the gems to activate the crystal of a level, which you must then enter to reach the next level. You must push blocks and avoid obstacles and losing too much marks the end of the game, where you have a limited amount of continues. The game must be run with minimal emulator settings to play properly, or things will be too fast (even if you adjust in-game speed settings; the author of the game suggests emulation and can't gaurantee how it will run on native Sharp X68000s) and difficult to control. The game is okay, though the controls seem to "stick"; I don't know if this is a result of my tech or a certain in-game lag that prevents the character from occasionally moving. Can you escape the Crystal Tower?

This is a sample of the first few levels. Enjoy.