Devil Crash
デビルクラッシュ1990Devil Crash
デビルクラッシュALSO KNOWN AS DEVIL'S CRUSH
A pinball table full of skulls and demons, three screens tall.
Devil's Crush is a pinball game that Compile made for the PC Engine. It is the second game in the Crush Pinball series. Its table is built around skulls and demons, and every corner of it hides something.
| RELEASED IN JAPAN | 20 July 1990 |
|---|---|
| DEVELOPER | Compile |
| JAPANESE PUBLISHER | Naxat Soft |
| MUSIC | Toshiaki Sakoda |
| SERIES | Crush Pinball |
The table scrolls freely and runs three screens high. Three pairs of flippers guard the drain. You can nudge the table to move the ball. Too much tilting disables the flippers, though, and the ball is lost.
Many targets fill the table, and several hidden bonus rooms wait behind them. Finding those rooms takes practice, because nothing marks where they are.
The game has no story. Its setting is occult, with pentagrams and bones across the table. The North American version replaced the pentagrams with plain stars and turned the crucifix coffins into vases.
Compile made the game, and Toshiaki Sakoda composed its music. Technosoft later ported the game to the Mega Drive, where it appeared as Dragon's Fury in the West.
Critics praised the TurboGrafx-16 version when it came out. Electronic Gaming Monthly ranked it 50th in its 1997 list of the 100 best games ever made. The magazine called it the best video pinball game ever made.
The game came back on the Wii Virtual Console in 2007. It later appeared on PlayStation 3 and PSP in 2009, and on Wii U in 2015.
It is the best-known pinball game on the console. It is an original PC Engine game, not an arcade port. The Mega Drive version adds a boss battle after the high score, but the PC Engine version has no such fight.
- The Japanese publisher, Naxat Soft, also handled the first game in the series.
- Famitsu's cross review gave the PC Engine version a gold award, with 34 points out of 40.
- The European Wii Virtual Console release replaced the pentagrams with an eight-pointed star.
- Dragon's Revenge, a Mega Drive game from 1993, followed the series from Tengen.
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