Gauntlet NES cartridge by Coolection. Features classic Tengen label art with four heroes: Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard, Elf. Loose copy.
Coolection Gauntlet NES cartridge, a classic action-adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Coolection Gauntlet NES cartridge, grey plastic with caution label and Nintendo logo. Loose copy.
Coolection Gauntlet NES game cartridge cover art featuring pixelated characters and dungeon maze. Classic retro gaming.
Gauntlet NES game select screen featuring a warrior character, stats, and text prompts. Coolection.
Coolection Gauntlet NES game cartridge, featuring dungeon crawling gameplay with pixelated characters and treasure chests.
Coolection Gauntlet NES game title screen with castle, coins, and brick maze elements.
Gauntlet NES video game screenshot showing a maze with red brick walls, gold chests, and a character navigating the dungeon.
Gauntlet NES video game cartridge, featuring dungeon maze gameplay with characters, enemies, and treasure chests.
Gauntlet NES cartridge by Coolection. Features classic Tengen label art with four heroes: Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard, Elf. Loose copy.
Coolection Gauntlet NES cartridge, a classic action-adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Coolection Gauntlet NES cartridge, grey plastic with caution label and Nintendo logo. Loose copy.
Coolection Gauntlet NES game cartridge cover art featuring pixelated characters and dungeon maze. Classic retro gaming.
Gauntlet NES game select screen featuring a warrior character, stats, and text prompts. Coolection.
Coolection Gauntlet NES game cartridge, featuring dungeon crawling gameplay with pixelated characters and treasure chests.
Coolection Gauntlet NES game title screen with castle, coins, and brick maze elements.
Gauntlet NES video game screenshot showing a maze with red brick walls, gold chests, and a character navigating the dungeon.
Gauntlet NES video game cartridge, featuring dungeon maze gameplay with characters, enemies, and treasure chests.

Gauntlet - NES [Loose Game]

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Item Description

Gauntlet on the NES is not a straight copy of the arcade machine, and that's what makes it worth playing. Tengen kept the formula that turned Atari Games' 1985 cabinet into a smash, a top-down crawl through monster-choked mazes where your health drains away every second, and then built an entirely new adventure around it: 100 fresh levels and a real quest to see through to the end.

The four heroes are all here. Thor the Warrior hits hardest, Thyra the Valkyrie wears the best armor, Merlin the Wizard throws the strongest magic and Questor the Elf moves fastest, and choosing between them changes how every maze plays out. Ghosts, grunts, demons and sorcerers pour out of the corridors in swarms alongside some new additions to the enemy roster, and the familiar rhythm of grabbing keys, hoarding magic and scrambling for food before your health runs dry is as tense as ever. A second player can join in at the same time, and sharing those corridors means sharing the loot, which makes for plenty of friendly arguments over who gets the next plate of food.

The big change is the goal. Instead of an endless descent, the NES version gives you a destination: the Sacred Orb waiting in the 100th level. Hidden clue rooms scattered through the other 99 levels each hold a piece of the password that opens the way, so exploration matters and every secret room is worth chasing down. A password system also lets you save your progress, which turns a quarter-munching arcade experience into a quest you can work through over many evenings.

Tengen developed and released the game in 1988, and it is widely cited as the first NES game developed in the United States. That history, together with its smart reinvention of an arcade landmark, makes it a fascinating piece of the NES story. It's the version of Gauntlet with an ending to chase and a partner's seat on the couch.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1987
Publisher
Tengen
Developer
Atari Games
Players
Single player, Multiplayer
About the game

The NES port of the classic arcade title Gauntlet, which itself made it to Arcades via the PlayChoice-10 machine.

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