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View Poll Results: How does Gauntlet rate with you?
5 - An arcade legend! 0 0%
4 - Magical. 2 25.00%
3 - Fine but not enough to fill me up. 2 25.00%
2 - I'm starving here. 2 25.00%
1 - Lock it in a dungeon. 1 12.50%
Haven't played it. 1 12.50%
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Old 12-07-2021, 08:40 AM   #1
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Rate the Game: Week 88
Here go again, folks! Welcome to December. The countdown to Christmas is underway! Or Hannukah, if that's your bag. Everyone's welcome here. Just thinking about the goodies that we'll be unwrapping during the holidays is enough to get me pumped. Perhaps one of the games on our illustrious list here can make a great present. Maybe this week's game? Well, we'll get to that in a bit but first let's perform our ceremonial duty of putting last week's Final Fight in its proper place. How does it stack up?



Well it doesn't have enough to get to the top of the pack but Final Fight enjoys some company in the number 40 spot right next to Sim City 2000 with a 3.8 average.

IDEA TIME!!! A Final Fight/Sim City crossover game where you roam the streets of your custom city as Final Fight characters, beating the shit out of criminals!!! LICENSE TO PRINT MONEY!!!

OK, enough of that. Let's get back to business here. It's the 88th week of this shindig so let's have a look at what we're tackling this time. I summon the bowl!!!

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Well, back to the arcade past once again this week as we look at what I consider the grandfather of a lot of arcade titles, the legendary Gauntlet! Yellow Wizard may need food but we need to know how this game ranks amongst the people of TPWW. Let's do that rating thing and hopefully the month of December treats us well. Until next week!



No matter what may happen to me, just remember Lzzy Hale gave me the bedroom eyes...



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Old 12-07-2021, 09:56 AM   #2
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Played the NES port which was ok but pales in comparison to #2.
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Old 12-07-2021, 10:29 AM   #3
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Man I dunno how to feel about this. the NES port was shit and I hated it, but I think I was too young to understand everything that Gauntlet demanded.


The arcade version I remember enjoying because it was always LOUD and looked much better.
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Old 12-07-2021, 01:05 PM   #4
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Hated this game.

The level where there were exit tiles everywhere and running over them until you found the right one pissed me off.
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Old 12-07-2021, 05:29 PM   #5
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The only one I played was Gauntlet Legends on N64 and probably arcade.... does that one count or are we talking about the original here?
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Old 12-07-2021, 10:53 PM   #6
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I quite like this game.
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Old 12-08-2021, 04:24 AM   #7
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The only one I played was Gauntlet Legends on N64 and probably arcade.... does that one count or are we talking about the original here?
The original; but don't worry. Gauntlet Legends is part of the new pile so we'll be tackling that one eventually.
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Old 12-08-2021, 12:41 PM   #8
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4. Very fun, at least the first time around. However, I can't quite justify ranking it in the pantheon of truly classic 8-bit gems.
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Old 12-08-2021, 12:45 PM   #9
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The original; but don't worry. Gauntlet Legends is part of the new pile so we'll be tackling that one eventually.
I might be tipping my hand about that entry but I don't care, that by far is my favorite entry in the series. Something so fun and satisfying about hunting and eventually finding each of the 13 runestones and killing Skorne.
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Old 12-08-2021, 05:58 PM   #10
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The original; but don't worry. Gauntlet Legends is part of the new pile so we'll be tackling that one eventually.
In that case: Never played it.
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Old 12-09-2021, 04:18 AM   #11
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haven't played it
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Old 12-09-2021, 05:51 AM   #12
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Probably one of the funniest references to this game is in Ultimate Alliance 2, I believe, where Deadpool reaches critically low health and calls out to you, saying "Deadpool needs health...badly!"
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