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Gauntlet IV
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Item Description
Gauntlet IV is the rare home sequel that gives you the arcade game and then keeps going. It started life as an X68000 port of Atari's 1985 dungeon crawler made by a group of friends who went on to form M2, and Atari Games, through its Tengen label, turned their work into a full Genesis release in 1993. That origin shows in how faithfully the arcade mode recreates the original, and in how much the team piled on top of it.
Arcade mode is classic Gauntlet: Thor the Warrior, Thyra the Valkyrie, Merlin the Wizard and Questor the Elf carving through mazes clogged with ghosts, grunts and the generators that keep spawning them, scrambling for keys, food and the exit before their health drains away. Each hero has strengths and weaknesses, and with a four-player adapter all four can crowd the screen at once, which is how Gauntlet was always meant to be played.
Quest mode is the reason this cartridge earns its reputation. It turns Gauntlet into an action RPG, with a hub where merchants sell weapons for the gold you haul out of the dungeons, four towers to conquer in the order you choose, new bosses, and experience that raises your hero's stats as you go, all wrapped around the mystery of an ancient castle. Battle mode adds arena deathmatches with hidden power-ups and ring-out wins, and Record mode offers a password-backed spin on the arcade game for solo players.
Then there is the music. The score was composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata, the pair who would later write Final Fantasy Tactics, and it gives a 1985 arcade maze crawl the kind of sweeping, atmospheric soundtrack it never had before. Mean Machines and MegaTech both scored it 94 percent, and Mega ranked it among the best games on the console. For Gauntlet on a Sega system, there is no better way to play.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1993
- Genre
- Beat 'em up, Adventure
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game
Choose again from Thor the Warrior, Thyra the Valkyrie, Merlin the Wizard and Questor the Elf (each with their own advantages/disadvantages) and 1 to 4 players(supports Sega's four-player adapter). Alongside the standard arcade mode, there are the Quest, Battle and Record modes. Quest Mode: Defeat the four towers and solve the mystery of the ancient castle; weapons can be bought with collected gold from merchants in the main hub area, where you can also choose which tower to take on next. Experience points are good for increasing your stats. Battle Mode: Fight your fellows to the death. Maps can include teleporters/monsters/items etc. Avoid exits(or you'll be out of the round). Record Mode: Arcade mode with some variations such as a password continue, also you can't die - although points will be lost for every 500 health lost.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayGauntlet IV on Genesis
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