Gauntlet
The NES port of the classic arcade title Gauntlet, which itself made it to Arcades via the PlayChoice-10 machine.
Gauntlet is an arcade developed by Atari Games, released 3 January 1987 on Nintendo Entertainment System and Arcade.
What Gauntlet is
Gauntlet is an arcade game developed by Atari Games and released in 1987. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System and Arcade.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gauntlet is a 1985 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades. It is one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games. The core design of Gauntlet comes from the 1983 game Dandy for the Atari 8-bit computers, which resulted in a threat of legal action. It also has similarities to the 1983 maze game Time Bandit.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Gauntlet holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1987 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Gauntlet launched on 3 January 1987, within three weeks of World Games, The Sentinel, Rebelstar and Leaderboard. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: World Games, The Sentinel, Rebelstar, Leaderboard.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gauntlet yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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