My copy of Gauntlet 2 for Spectrum had a weird glitch - when Warrior used potion, it INCREASED the strength of monster-generators to their next highest level. Fortunately, this meant that 'triple-strength' generators could be destroyed. Anyone else ever experience this?
I always thought this was never released on the C64 due to the programmers PC being stolen. It was gonna be an isometric. I did read the preview in Zzap many years ago but nothing came of it.
The game is too barren, simplistic and repetitive to appeal to me. The speccy version may have been a bit of fun with a mate but I couldn't be bothered with it, so I don't know! Gauntlet 3 on the speccy looks good from the screenshots though.
Ideally you're meant to play it with four players, but that pretty much never happens. It's personally my all-time favourite game, but I can see how some folks wouldn't like it much.
I just like the whole thing of your life slowly ticking down so it basically turns into survival or seeing how far you can get.
How the hell could you get four players playing at the same time. On the speccy it was bad enough playing 2 players against each other on the tiny keyboard in other games.
Only one way to sort the ticking away and the survival thing - use a poke or press the reset button!
They also made Gauntlet 3 as well. It must have made a lot of money for US Gold. Gauntlet seemed to be very popular at the time. I could never figure out why!
Hundreds of hours lost with this game, I loved it !!!
CatalanLlop 10 months ago
My copy of Gauntlet 2 for Spectrum had a weird glitch - when Warrior used potion, it INCREASED the strength of monster-generators to their next highest level. Fortunately, this meant that 'triple-strength' generators could be destroyed. Anyone else ever experience this?
Dristarg 1 year ago
They should have hired Tim Follin to compose the music.
/watch?v=Y4ZdrQRi6W8
citizenhal 1 year ago
first time i have seen this on the spectrum when it came out i had an atari st its version of this was pretty near the coin op with sampled sound
uggla03 3 years ago
I didn't like the first one so this was a game I never had. Just don't like it at all!
SPINNYFUCK 3 years ago
Gauntlet was good on the C64, especially in 2 player mode. It looked crap on the Speccy though so I never bothered with it. Booo !!
mathowlett 3 years ago
I always thought this was never released on the C64 due to the programmers PC being stolen. It was gonna be an isometric. I did read the preview in Zzap many years ago but nothing came of it.
BobCassidy 3 years ago
Dunno about Gauntlet 2, but Gauntlet 1 definitely was. It was great fun too !!
mathowlett 3 years ago
Gauntlet 3 on the speccy was Isometric. Don't know about the other machines though!
SPINNYFUCK 3 years ago
Ah, that must be it so, Gauntlet 3.
BobCassidy 3 years ago
The game is too barren, simplistic and repetitive to appeal to me. The speccy version may have been a bit of fun with a mate but I couldn't be bothered with it, so I don't know! Gauntlet 3 on the speccy looks good from the screenshots though.
SPINNYFUCK 3 years ago
Ideally you're meant to play it with four players, but that pretty much never happens. It's personally my all-time favourite game, but I can see how some folks wouldn't like it much.
I just like the whole thing of your life slowly ticking down so it basically turns into survival or seeing how far you can get.
LuminarNightblade 3 years ago
Oh yeah, and thanks much for putting this up, too! =)
LuminarNightblade 3 years ago
No problem mate! ;)
SPINNYFUCK 3 years ago
How the hell could you get four players playing at the same time. On the speccy it was bad enough playing 2 players against each other on the tiny keyboard in other games.
Only one way to sort the ticking away and the survival thing - use a poke or press the reset button!
SPINNYFUCK 3 years ago
Oh my god! They made a sequel! Gauntlet I wasn't enought for them.
Musica8bits 3 years ago
They also made Gauntlet 3 as well. It must have made a lot of money for US Gold. Gauntlet seemed to be very popular at the time. I could never figure out why!
SPINNYFUCK 3 years ago