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Also of note are its slick graphics (for the time; it was the first color game on the Mac) and the bizarre, often hilarious sounds made from distorted voice recordings and cheesy synthesizers. Most infamously, the level completion fanfare was a recording of a woman making a suggestive gasping sound, something that apparently had to be censored for the Xbox port.
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* [[Blob Monster]] -- The Dumple.
* [[Breather Level]] -- In the sequel, every third level is a "bonus wave" with no mines or enemies, just goodies to collect... between a pair of [[Advancing Wall of Doom|Advancing Walls of Doom]].
* [[Bullet Hell]] -- Zarklephasers "emit bullets like a hail storm".
* [[Collision Damage]] / [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] / [[One -Hit -Point Wonder]] -- Touch ''anything'' not collectible, and you're dead. Yes, even ''the sides of the gateway out of the level.'' Did we mention it's [[Nintendo Hard]]?
* [[Cool Gate]]
* [[Destroyable Items]] -- Bonus Crystals.
* [[Endless Game]]
* [[Every Ten Thousand Points]] -- Extra lives are awarded "at depressingly rarer intervals."
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Cows]]: Space Cows.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] -- Fired by Menaces, who are actually [http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/c/crystalquestlivearcadexbox360/20060215-nastyguide.htm "something of a respite after Zarklephasers."]
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]] -- Each level's crystals.
* [[Harder Than Hard]] -- Hold down Option to play ''Super-Fast Mode'', if you dare. High scores achieved in this mode will be marked with an asterisk.
* [[Heavy Metal Umlaut]] / [[Stealth Pun]] -- ''Crystal Crazy's'' tranq-wielding ruffian, the Välïümlöüt.
* [[Instant Armor]] -- In five different varieties, including [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|a "Rubber Hat" made of latex.]] Sequel-only.
* [[Level Editor]] -- The included Critter Editor.
* [[Made of Explodium]] -- The Shrapwarden. "Quite sweet little things these. Unless you shoot them..."
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* [[Plot Coupon]] -- Collect all the crystals to open the gateway.
* [[Portmanteau]] -- Various creature names, such as the Tentawarble, Shipnapper, Rawpuscle, and Shrapwarden.
* [[Power -Up]] -- Guns and armor in the sequel.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]] -- ''Crystal Crazy'' reveals your <s>circle</s> [[Flying Saucer]] to be piloted by a ''space cow with six legs.'' (Who is, of course, a girl.)
* [[Score Screen]]