Gauntlet

GAUNTLET

The arcade sensation comes home

This is it. The game everybody's been waiting for, Gauntlet, the most successful arcade game of all time has come home. And it brings with it all the characters, dungeons, traps, treasures, and excitement you loved in the arcades.

Featuring: * Thor, Thyra, Questor, and Merlin together again.

• Ghosts, grunts, demons, lobbers, sorcerers, and Death.

• Potions, magic, keys, treasure, traps, transporters, and more.

• All the levels you know and love from the arcade.

• Two player, join at any time, play system.

• The action, sound, and animation of the arcades on your home screen.

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From the back cover

CAN YOU CUT IT?

Can you handle the excitement of the hottest arcade megahits?

Then cut out these name plates, mount 'em on your monitors and boot up Gauntlet and Paperboy from Mindscape. That's all you need for absolutely outrageous arcade action, right at home.

You'll get real arcade graphics. Real arcade feel. Real arcade excitement. After all, these are based on the real arcade classics. So get set, get psyched for the arcade to hit home. Just pick up new Gauntlet and Paperboy. That is, if you think you can cut it.

Mindscape takes the arcade home.

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Advertisement in COMPUTE!, March 1988

THE #1 ARCADE HIT!

Experience the fantasy that is GAUNTLET(r). The unique two-player option lets you compete against a friend or join forces to defeat the swarming monsters. Choose Thor, Merlin, Thyra or Questor as your hero. Explore over 90 mazes for treasures and magic potions. Use the convenient password feature to move up to an advanced level. GAUNTLET. It's the ultimate sword-and-sorcery adventure.

(Source: inside front cover of "Starman" issue 1, October 1988.)

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magazine advertisement (US)

GAUNTLET™ ... the arcade sensation. You will enter a world full of monsters and mazes, follow the paths of mystery and combat searching for the food which allows you to increase your health. Monsters and legions of enemies will bar your way. They are not your only adversaries however, in this search for food, treasure and magic potions — the other players are also searching for the same good bounty.

Y COMPRIS INSTRUCTIONS FRANCAISES
MIT DEUTSCHER ANLEITUNG.

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Back of Cassette Case (KIXX) - Spectrum (DE-FR-IT-UK)

Journey deep into the treacherous dungeons as you fight endless hordes of enemies in search of treasure and the way out.

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Antstream description