Gauntlet by Atari Games

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Original Instructions

Note: Many of these instructions have been OCRed and may not have been proofread, as a result spelling errors, broken English and grammar are likely.

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Cheat Mode(s)

hint
Most people know this one, but start off as player 1 and play for a bit... when you're about to lose all your health, hit the player 2 fire button, you can then pick up all the keys and potions left over... Keep repeating until you're sick of the game. - submitted by Malc (CPC Zone Staff)

typein
This one will give you infinite energy:

10 MEMORY &3FFF
20 x=&4000:c=0
30 READ a$
40 IF a$="xx" THEN GOTO 80
50 c=c+VAL("&"+a$)
60 POKE x,VAL("&"+a$)
70 x=x+1:GOTO 30
80 READ d
90 IF d=c THEN CALL &4000
100 PRINT "Error in Data"
110 STOP
120 DATA 06,00,11,00,c0
130 DATA cd,77,bc,21,70
140 DATA 01,cd,83,bc,21
150 DATA 1b,6a,22,c9,02
160 DATA 21,24,40,11,70
170 DATA 01,01,08,00,ed
180 DATA b0,3e,6b,c3,ef
190 DATA 01,3e,c9,32,95
200 DATA 9b,c3,00,84,xx
210 DATA 4033
220 END

Poke by Tony Hoyle for Amstrad Action. - submitted by Malc (CPC Zone Staff)

About Gauntlet

First released : 1985

Publishers/Developers

Atari Games

US Gold

Tony Porter

Genre: Arcade

Music and Sound

Bill Allen

Ben Daglish

Graphics and Production:

Kevin Bulmer

Number of Players :
2

Controls :
Keyboard or Joystick
Joystick/Keyboard

Prequels and Sequels (Beta)

The following titles are treated as prequel(s) or sequel(s) to "Gauntlet":

Gauntlet 2 (1986)

Gauntlet 3 (1990)

Packs and Boxsets

"Gauntlet" was also available in the following game packs/box sets:

Arcade Force Four (1988)

Multimixx 4

Solid Gold (1987)

Official Awards Won

No official awards or ratings on record.

Where can I download this?

Most of the titles covered by Gamebase can be found at TACGR

Member Comments

"Fantastic Job by Gremlin I bought this on Disc with my CPC 6128
Christmas 86 and all my friends loved it Unfortunately there was a bug though and it would crash ever now again when loading the next level in from the disc drive.It didn't matter though it showed off my new computers graphic and sound capability fantastically and thats what I wanted " - ninelivecat

ninelivecat's rating : 9/10

"Originally programmed by Gremlin Graphics, then released by USGOLD... Gauntlet on the CPC is every bit as wonderful as its arcade original. A must own game that has something for everyone." - britnostalgic

britnostalgic's rating : 9/10

"Red Warrior Shot The Food! - Probably one of my favourite games. Unfortunately the speech was missing, but otherwise perfect. I reckon the best 8bit home computer version. It's better than the Speccy version and far surpasses the C64 version. It would of been nice if you could of had four player though. Check out my comparison here: http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2863&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=358" - woody.cool

woody.cool's rating : 9/10

"quality coin-op conversion that looks damn fine. i played this until the end of the tape!" - khisanth

khisanth's rating : 8/10

"Nice conversion. Was never a HUGE fan, but always enjoyed a quick blast of this in the arcades." - scooby1970

scooby1970's rating : 7/10

"A cool arcade conversion lacking sound and FX as it would have been really good to hear your cpc say "warrior needs food badly" just like the arcade did... It has so many levels you`ll be playing this for hours and hours if not days trying to complete it." - cpc4eva

cpc4eva's rating : 7/10

Other Resources

Further information on "Gauntlet" by Atari Games is also available for the following platforms:

World of Spectrum
(ZX Spectrum)

Gauntlet</a> for the Commodore 64 (Lemon64)

Lemon 64
(Commodore 64)

Generation MSX
(MSX)

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