The drawings offer a glimpse of the challenges facing arcade game makers and cabinet designers through this period. Few are as illuminating as the story of Gauntlet, a four-player role-playing ...

Arcade games in the mid-'80s already allowed a single player to select from a variety of characters, each possessing different strengths and weaknesses. What made Gauntlet special is that it ...

Arrowhead Games’ Gauntlet remake arrives today, just shy of three decades after the release of the 1985 arcade classic. We didn’t know it at the time, but the franchise’s early years can be ...

The GBA version of Gauntlet, on the surface, looks and sounds absolutely spot-on to the classic arcade game. The development team lifted all the arcade artwork and sound effects for this GBA ...

Featuring a memorable assortment of heroes and monsters as well as one of the first successful implementations of four-player cooperative gameplay in an arcade game, Gauntlet quickly became a classic.

Verdict It's no secret that Gauntlet: Dark Legacy is a pure, mindless hack-and-slash. Midway intentionally designed it to be very simple -- and they've accomplished this in buckets. However, this ...

Gauntlet, a co-op arcade game with a fantasy twist, was groundbreaking for its time. We interviewed Red Faction designer David Abzug about its legacy and influence. In 1985, Atari Games released ...

Featuring a memorable assortment of heroes and monsters as well as one of the first successful implementations of four-player cooperative gameplay in an arcade game, Gauntlet quickly became a classic.