Lazarus Archive · LZ-06631

The Crimson Citadels

Karin Ortega, 1996. Game for arcade cabinets.

Description

An arcade flight simulator by Karin Ortega, 1996, read from the board’s ROMs.

Provenance

Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Hartmore Springs. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Rebuilt from 5 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
fb31587054ba0fa6ea45c63dcf1b59955cf41135f3b998ece29cf3c58064fd78
Last verified
Oct 7, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-ARCADE-6 · lz-arcade core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ARCADE-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on arcade cabinets.

Cite as: Karin Ortega, The Crimson Citadels (1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-06631.

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