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Gauntlet |
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Manufacturer:
Atari Year: 1985 Class: Wide Release Genre: Labyrinth/Maze Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 4 Maximum number of Players: 4 Gameplay: Joint Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player Controls:
Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp) |
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DescriptionUp to four people can play at once, exploring dungeons and fighting monsters from a top-view perspective. Each player's character has different strengths and weaknesses. The players collect food, potions, and treasure in return for points, health, magic and power-ups.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationThe cabinet is somewhat shorter and wider than the average cabinet. The screen is not covered by a protective glass.Cheats, Tricks and BugsIf a player remains motionless until about 30 health units tick away, all the locked doors will automatically open. If you wait for 100 health units, all the walls on the level will turn to exits.ConversionAtari produced a Gauntlet II conversion kit for this game. Konami also produced conversion kits to convert this game to The Main Event and Crime Fighters. In general, Gauntlet was very popular for conversions to other four player games.Atari also produced a two-player version of this game, which was released as a limited edition only. Game IntroductionIn this fantasy adventure maze game, there are four different player characters who each have different powers and/or weapons. The Warrior who wields a battle axe; the Elf who carries a bow and arrows; the Wizard who uses magic; and the Valkyrie who uses a sword and a shield.The four players move through mazes searching for various items and killing monsters. The Warrior does the most damage. The Elf does the least damage but is the fastest. The Wizard can do the most damage with potions. The Valkarie is a good combination of strength and speed. Potions found wipe out varying amounts of enemies and enemy generators, depending on which player uses it. A player starts with a certain number of health points by putting quarters in the machine. These tick down with time and damage from enemies. Food replenishes them. Treasure counts for points. The game has no ultimate goal to be reached. Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Very Common - There are 97 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 71 of them are original dedicated machines, 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 24 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 66 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. - There are 15 VAPS members currently looking for this game. Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range. TechnicalMain CPU: 68010. Sound CPU: 6502. Speech IC: TMS-5220CThe game's architecture is similar to that of the Atari System I games (e.g. Marble Madness). This game was also released as a two-player upright whose program code differed in only a few of the EPROMs and used a different slapstick security chip. TriviaThe player characters in the game are also known respectively as Thor (the Warrior), Questor (the Elf), Merlin (the Wizard) and Thydra (the Valkyrie).In June 1994, Atari applied for and was later granted a patent for a "Multi-player, mutli-character cooperative play video game with independent player entry and departure". (#USRE035314) A poorer version of this game (Gauntlet (PlayChoice)) was also available for Nintendo's PlayChoice arcade machines. FixesThe game has a single PCB which is exceptionally large and therefore more susceptable to traces being broken. Handle the board with care and do not bend it.It is very common to see heavy burn-in on the right hand side of the screen. A layer of smoked lexan over the monitor will help disguise this when the power is off. eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Gauntlet Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Atari. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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