Gauntlet

"Wizard needs food... Badly!"

Gauntlet is a 1985 fantasy themed hack-and-slash arcade game developed and released by Atari Games. It is noted as being one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games. The game is set within a series of top-down, third-person, orthographic mazes where the object is to find and touch the designated exit in every level. Each player controls one of four playable characters: Thor the warrior; Merlin the wizard; Thyra the valkyrie; or Questor the Elf.

Subject ID: 11196

More

"Wizard needs food... Badly!"

Gauntlet is a 1985 fantasy themed hack-and-slash arcade game developed and released by Atari Games. It is noted as being one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games. The game is set within a series of top-down, third-person, orthographic mazes where the object is to find and touch the designated exit in every level. Each player controls one of four playable characters: Thor the warrior; Merlin the wizard; Thyra the valkyrie; or Questor the Elf.

The arcade version of Gauntlet was released in November 1985 and was initially available only as a dedicated four-player cabinet. The game has ported to MS-DOS, Apple II, Macintosh, MSX, Nintendo Entertainment System, Apple IIGS, Sega Master System, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, NES, Atari Lynx, GBA and the PlayStation 1 console as part of Midway's Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2. Since 1986 it has spawned numerous sequels:  Gauntlet II, which was followed by further sequels on home platforms, including Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, Gauntlet III: The Final Quest, and Gauntlet IV. The arcade series was revived with Gauntlet Legends in 1998, which itself saw the sequels Gauntlet Dark Legacy and Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows. The game was rebooted in 2014 on home platforms as Gauntlet.

Subject ID: 11196

Less