Gauntlet II (Atari ST)

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Description

Gauntlet II is very similar to its predecessor. Up to four players (a wizard, a warrior, an elf, and a valkyrie) make their way through various mazes, collect treasures and magic potions, and fend off assorted creatures and ghosts.

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Alternate Titles

• "圣铠传说II" -- Simplified Chinese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Fantasy Creatures: Elves
• Gameplay feature: Hunger / Thirst
• Gauntlet series

User Reviews

There are no reviews for the Atari ST release of this game. You can use the links below to write your own review or read reviews for the other platforms of this game.

Critic Reviews

The Games Machine (UK)	Jul, 1988	93 out of 100	93
Atari ST User	Sep, 1988	9 out of 10	90
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Jul, 1988	9 out of 10	90
Zero	Feb, 1990	90 out of 100	90
ST Action	Aug, 1988	88 out of 100	88
ST Format	Sep, 1993	86 out of 100	86
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Sep, 1988	820 out of 1000	82
Power Play	Jul, 1988	8 out of 10	80

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
MG wouldn't take my documentation of the hexedit..	3	Pseudo_Intellectual (62163) Feb 02, 2015
Best of the series?	6	AaronGamer (45) Jun 11, 2011
Pending correction	3	Indra was here (20909) May 06, 2011

Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Arcade version of Gauntlet II appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Cuntlet 2

A hex-edited, X-rated copy of the MS-DOS version of this game circulated underground under the name Cuntlet 2. As well as an explicit title screen (liberating the the valkyrie of her constrictive loincloth), enemy sprites were changed (to predictably "hilarious" things like bums, dildos, and of course the Death Penis) and "IT" (the communicable monster-attractor) was tastefully renamed "AIDS." Instead of leaving behind a key ring upon character death, instead in your wake is left a wet puddle on the sheets.

Finally, the pedestrian Barbarian, Elf, Valkyrie, and Wizard found themselves renamed Adonis the Love God, Queer the Fag, Venus the Whore, and Moon Beam the Hippy, respectively.

Speech

Gauntlet II featured digitized sounds through the PC internal speaker. Some packages also included a Tandy SL / TL upgrade which took advantage of the digital sound capabilities of these computers (The SL / TL disk was also available from Mindscape if the package didn't include it. It seems inclusion of the enhanced sound disk was random)

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