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Yes, the metal glove that reduced many a games player into a shivering sleepless wreck. This is one of the only coin-op conversions that ever really captured the addictive essence of the original and was the big Christmas hit in '86. I was enchanted by this one for months.
    If you don't know already the idea is to direct your beefy medieval hero (or heroine) on a quest through billions of multi-load levels, fighting off hordes of ghosts, ogres and grim reapers, collecting potions, treasure and extra weaponry, sifting through caverns, mazes and bonus screens, blasting, exploding, pulverising, shooting... aarrghhh! It's brilliant! The creatures are fairly brainless, churning about, chasing you. They're fairly easy to dispatch as well, a couple of well-timed axes down their ectoplasmic gullets usually does the biz. You race towards the exits but doors block off sections of the maze, so keys must be collected to open them. The mazes become progressively more complex and progressively more populated with nasty cultures. You collect extra weapons and deal death in a fun way.
    The graphics are a little simplistic, the colours a little garish and the multi-load a bit tedious, but all these niggles are swiftly forgotten when you experience the pleasure of simultaneous two player action. Playing with a friend (at the computer, I hasten to add) lends another dimension to the game. You can be savagely nefarious and leave your partner to the Reaper's mercy, be savagely sadistic and shoot him 'accidently' or even be savagely co-operative - either way it's bags of fun and well worth the money.

Arcade version screenshot...

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Ratings given by other magazines

9/10      9/10    Crash Review ---

Info supplied by the SPOT*ON database

YS Cross-references
		Gauntlet/US Gold	YS10	NEWS
		Gauntlet/US Gold	YS13	PRE
		Gauntlet/US Gold	YS14	9
		Gauntlet/Kixx	YS35	8
		Gauntlet (in History In The Making)	YS38	UNR
		Gauntlet (in The YS Complete Guide To Shoot-'em-ups Part II)	YS56	83
		Gauntlet (in The YS Official Top 100 Part 3)	YS72	No.38
		Gauntlet (in Multimixx IV (Gauntlet Compilation))	YS76
Some info from Sinclair Infoseek+SPOT*ON