One of my favorite games that I could spend all of my quarters on and not realize it until my hand is through my pocket and into my pant leg. Games like Gauntlet give people like me reasons to wake up in the morning. They still have it at the local arcade. Play it every day for about a half hour and leave.
The reason I like this game so much is because of the gameplay. I am a fan of hack and slash style games and this game does such a good job on hacking and slashing it should win an award for best hack and slash back in the day, but it goes another step further and allows multiplayer.
This is when it gets interesting. When you have 4 players playing, one guy's health is low, and there's food, you could eat it and make your character survive longer, or you could give it to the person and maybe reach a high score, its things like that, that I absolutely love.
The sound in this game is not the greatest, you hear a voice constantly yelling at you whenever you do something wrong, or when you do something right (doesn't happen often), the cleaning of gold when you pick it up is quite satisfying as well as eating food and hearing that glorious gulp and seeing your health go up.
The graphics in this game for its time is unbelievable and still holds up to today’s
standards in my opinion. The game runs nice and smoothly and can have over 50 characters on screen at once, impressive.
I also liked the fact that the character classes played a big role on what you were going to do in the game. If you were a mage, you would stay back and fire your magic, if you are an elf you move around a lot and pick people off with your arrows, if you are a warrior you use your brute strength to pummel your way through crowds of demons, and if you are a Valkyrie you are a mix of both the warrior and the elf.
My final word, this game is a masterpiece that already has gone down into history for being a fantastic game. We need more games like this not some generic GTA clone or shooter that plays like everything else. In the end if I'm still having fun with it all these years it is still one heck of a fun game and I recommend it if you feel like spending money at your local arcade.
