Planet Bob

Gauntlet is one of those games that is such a blast to play with a friend (or 2 or 3) and so utterly pointless to play alone. It's so mindless and boring but somehow playing with someone else elevates it so much.

We had 4 people playing Gauntlet on the PS2 and had a lot of fun until we realized you could hit the "insert coin for additional health" button as often as you'd like. It became quite boring after that.

Well, there's no way I'll ever get my wife into playing Gauntlet with me, so probably my only chance to ever play multiplayer Gauntlet will be once the kids are old enough

Well, there's no way I'll ever get my wife into playing Gauntlet with me, so probably my only chance to ever play multiplayer Gauntlet will be once the kids are old enough

I have Gauntlet II for the NES and, like I said, it is just lame to play by myself (so I never do). But my brother and I had a blast a year or two ago playing it for several hours one night.

We had 4 people playing Gauntlet on the PS2 and had a lot of fun until we realized you could hit the "insert coin for additional health" button as often as you'd like. It became quite boring after that.

Same thing with Smash T.V. If you aren't feeding real quarters into the machine, "skillful playing" becomes moot with infinite continues.

A little trivia bit I forgot to mention in the main article is that Rainbow Arts did a totally rip-off sequel called "Garrison II" on the Amiga. It was basically the very same game, it just got a different title screen and 128 new levels