Gauntlet II

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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" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

Part of the Following Groups

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

User Reviews

Disappointing sequel to the traditional 'coin-op'

NES

The_Ferryman (14)

Critic Reviews

The Games Machine (UK)	Atari ST	Jul, 1988	93 out of 100	93
Player One	Game Boy	Jun, 1992	85 out of 100	85
Video Games	NES	Mar, 1991	80 out of 100	80
Happy Computer	Amstrad CPC	Jan, 1988	77 out of 100	77
Play Time	NES	Jan, 1992	76 out of 100	76
Raze	NES	Feb, 1991	74 out of 100	74
Play Time	Game Boy	May, 1992	74 out of 100	74
Amiga User International	Amiga	Feb, 1989	29 out of 40	72
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	NES	Jan, 1991	21 out of 40	52
The Video Game Critic	NES	Oct 03, 2014	D	25

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
MG wouldn't take my documentation of the hexedit..	3	Pseudo_Intellectual (60787) Feb 02, 2015
Best of the series?	6	AaronGamer (45) Jun 11, 2011
Pending correction	3	Indra was here (20928) 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)

Information also contributed by Pseudo_Intellectual