This website has been created to honour Apogee Software's Crystal Caves PC adventure game - an old game, but certainly not a forgotten one.

Crystal Caves consists of three 'episodes', in which Mylo Steamwitz - the luckless miner and protagonist of the games - explores the perilous Crystal Caves of Altair in search of crystals which he can then trade at the Galactic Trading Post for cash to fund his money-making schemes.


Crystal Caves was originally released on October 23, 1991 by Apogee Software, which means on October 23, 2006 Crystal Caves will be 15 years old!

The 24th of October, 2005 saw a new patch released for Crystal Caves with the purpose of fixing a potentially dangerous bug found in the game when running under Windows XP. This puts Crystal Caves in the running for the game with the longest period of time between the release of the game and the release of a patch for the game. Crystal Caves is now at Version 1.0a. The patch can be obtained at the Downloads page.

In 2005, Crystal Caves fans were also treated to what was possibly the first Crystal Caves interview ever. Perilous Crystal Caves had the honour of asking the game's author, Frank Maddin, a series of mostly Crystal Caves related questions, put forth from Crystal Caves fans across the internet. Read what Frank has to say in the Frank Maddin Interview.

It is my hope that this website does justice to everyone with fond memories of playing Crystal Caves, as well as those just discovering the game.



Latest Update: July 3, 2006: Complete site update.
I have recently been constructing an entire website update for PCCW. Over the past few months I has been getting a bit untidy, and I think it's good that every once in a while the site gets a cleanup. Things that are going to be updated include:
- the coding of the website (which at the moment is hardly a pretty sight... or site),
- text (such as the text on this very page - I've already written up some new stuff which reads a bit better than the stuff I wrote back in 2004. I've also re-written the 'plot' pages and some trivia entires),
- layout (I'm not happy with the layout. I never have been, actually. Hopefully I can come up with something a bit better),
- images (The title banner and the other random images I have created for this website lack... something. I'm lead to believe that it is quality.)

I'm not sure if there's anything else that will be updated, or is in my current plan for the update, but since I created this site for you, the visitor, feel free to tell me if there's something you're not happy with on the site. Chances are I'll agree with you and it'll be added to my 'fix list'.

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