There have been several more entries in the franchise over the years: In later years, Gauntlet has been included in various retro game compilations, including a two-pack with Rampart for the Game Boy Advance. Gold released a Sega Master System version exclusively in Europe. The NES version was a reworked port that featured an actual storyline and an actual end to the game. In 1987, an NES version was released by Atari Games' consumer division Tengen, being one of the few Tengen games on the NES that was initially released as a licensed game before their fallout with Nintendo. Gold in 1986, with versions available on the ZX Spectrum, the Atari 8-bit series, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Atari ST and Apple II. In terms of home versions, Gauntlet was first ported to the various home computer platforms available at the time by Mindscape and U.S. Finally, it was one of the first games to support four players at once, and this emphasis on social multiplayer was probably the biggest part of its success. It had voice-acting, in extremely limited quantities: in addition to damage grunts from the four characters, there was also a Narrator whose announcements were assembled dynamically from pre-existing snippets: "Wizard needs food, badly" was a famous one. You can shoot food and magic potion pickups, which is rarely as beneficial as picking them up, so it pays to be careful with your attacks. Interchangeable Antimatter Keys need to be collected to get where you're going.
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(For obvious reasons, this tends to be averted for the console releases.) Mook Makers are another signature trope of the series they need to be destroyed if you don't want to be swamped. To keep you feeding coins, Atari invented the " Wizard Needs Food Badly" trope: While food provides healing, your character loses one Hit Point every second under any and all circumstances, basically guaranteeing a Game Over at some point. Each hero had a specialty: Thor the Warrior excels in melee combat, Thyra the Valkyrie had the best armor, Merlin the Wizard can destroy all hostile targets with magic, and Questor the Elf trumped everyone in agility. Each player had a joystick and two buttons, labeled "Fire" and "Magic" the latter button activated a potion which weakened or destroyed all enemies on the screen. Up to four heroes - a warrior, a valkyrie, a wizard, and an elf - went Dungeon Crawling, viewed from above in a scrolling window, collecting treasure and defeating monsters. Introduced in 1985, Atari's Gauntlet was based on the earlier Dandy, written for the Atari 8-Bit Computers.
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