Gauntlet 1 on Commodore 64 C64 levels 1 to 4

[Tiwaking]

CRACKED??? Buy the game you filthy pirate!!

[Simon0]

is there any difference in the different characters? (aside from that they lok different..)

[HardWarUK]

The game that gave Creative Assembly an idea.....!

[Wittmann73]

thanks for the memories

[dpeltner]

Man, i used to have a lot more patience back than.. this loads forever :D

[MadCommodore]

@dpeltner

My first batch of games as a kid included Manic Miner.....25 mins to load and no loading music/graphics!!

[Simon0]

@MadCommodore i remember that. i used to start it loading then go do something else.. then forget about it and come back ages later to find it loaded!

[32MultiKitty]

I remember when I was little I played this w/my sister. We were a really good team; we got up to at least level 127. We bought the disk featuring a BUNCH of old games like these. (It was an old disk to begin with) Theres a cheat for it though, If you start a level and are completely stuck, don't touch the controller (I've only tried this on Xbox) And just leave it there, without pausing and after a while (About 10 mins I think) And everything blocking you before turns into an exit. It's epic.

[32MultiKitty]

@32MultiKitty Oops, I meant at least 475 (The levels are indefinite though)

[MadCommodore]

@32MultiKitty

Yep this happens on all versions including the arcade/MAME too I think.

[preydog1]

@32MultiKitty Yeah i can remember the cheat :)

[Tiwaking]

@32MultiKitty Yep. If you stay still for five minutes then all the walls turn to exits. There was a version of it for DOS which had a bug in it. On level 58 you could not get to the exit and the only way to complete the level was to wait.

[kaisellgren666]

wow, the game loaded fast for me... i guess it was the legendary Epyx Fast Load ;)

[wandererlain]

A great fun game for the time but Christ it went on forever with no end.

[ForSunday]

Oh to be 8 years old again...

[zombiemod]

"pretty decent considering the C64's 160x200 4 colour mode!"

No such thing.... that's 320 x 200 resolution, using 160 x 200 blocks in some areas... :) - the C64's text mode allowed hires and blocky character graphics to be mixed together.

Not that anyone cares nowadays ;-)

[PermT]

wot a wicked game !

[czuket]

this game was da bomb

[97channel]

I always used to think of that first item that's collected in this vid as looking like a mini fireplace with fire burning.

Those things that come at you looked like some sort of white crabby type things and the sprites where they're spawnded from like roast chickens.

Loved the game, but didn't play it alot cos the amount of loading from tape was ridiculous.

[wandererlain]

@97channel "roast chickens" LOL

[myst221998]

Damn, this brings back memories...

[hurricanewinzz]

yeah the tape version of gauntlet took a while to load

[Tiwaking]

@hurricanewinzz This cant be the tape version though. Where are the colourful loading lines on the side of the screen?

[shamoneshaneigh]

wow... i dont remember it taking it that long to load...haha and look at that german kid going mad over a 30 second load time. hahah what an awesome game....it went on indefinetely didnt it ?

[dickiefingers]

Loved the arcade. This was completely ace on the c64!