Gauntlet [Gray Cart]
Gauntlet [Gray Cart]
Gauntlet [Gray Cart]
Gauntlet [Gray Cart]
Gauntlet [Gray Cart]
Gauntlet [Gray Cart]

Gauntlet [Gray Cart]

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Item Description

Thor, Thyra, Merlin and Questor walk into a dungeon, and within a minute someone has shot the food. Gauntlet's brilliance was always the tension between teamwork and self-interest, and Tengen's NES version keeps every bit of it while wrapping it in something the arcade original never had: an actual quest with an ending.

The fundamentals are all here. Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard and Elf hack and blast their way through mazes full of ghosts, grunts, demons and Death himself; monster generators keep spawning until someone destroys them; and your health ticks down just for being in the dungeon, which makes food the most precious thing on the map. Potions, keys and treasure all have to be divided between two players fighting side by side, and that constant bargaining is what makes it such good couch co-op. The arcade's familiar cast of monsters and pickups made the trip home with them.

What sets it apart is the structure. Instead of an endless descent, the NES game is built from 100 brand-new levels, and the goal is to recover the orb hidden in the last of them. Getting there means finding the clue rooms scattered through the other 99 and piecing together the password that opens the final level, while a separate password system lets you pick up your progress later. That is an unusual amount of purpose for an arcade conversion, and it gives the NES Gauntlet an identity of its own rather than a scaled-down copy of the cabinet. It even went full circle, appearing in arcades on Nintendo's PlayChoice-10 machines.

This is the gray-cartridge release, one of only three games Tengen published as officially licensed Nintendo cartridges, alongside R.B.I. Baseball and Pac-Man, before the company broke with Nintendo and began producing its own black unlicensed carts. Gauntlet was reissued in that black form with the same game inside, which makes this gray edition the original licensed version of a game with an unusually tangled history, and the place where the Tengen saga on the NES starts.

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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