Atari's Arcade Classic Gauntlet Due For Release This Month

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As awesome as it was to grow up in the eighties, we didn't half burn through countless credits in the arcades. Atari's 1985 coin-op hit Gauntlet was one of the many penny munchers out there, encouraging gamers to 'purchase' more in-game health. Later this month though, the credits are no more, as WB Games is set to re-release the title with a modern look and retro game play.

Similar to the original, this HD offering of Gauntlet is set to revive the four player co-operative action, both locally and online. With a plethora of monsters for the beating, the four different classes - Warrior, Valkyrie, Elf, and Wizard - return to taxing dungeons once more.

Judging by the trailer, it would appear that Gauntlet has been given the right treatment in the remake department - leaving the original game play style intact while updating the visuals. That said, there's still a few weeks till the game arrives on Steam... a time when we'll need to put aside our nostalgia to critique the remake.

Gauntlet is due to go on sale on Steam at $24.38 on September 23rd.

Gauntlet on Steam

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Gauntlet Released

September 23, 2014 12:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today released Gauntlet, a fully modernized reboot of the celebrated dungeon crawler, on Steam for PC, offering full support for SteamOS and the upcoming Steam Machines shipping next year. Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios, the game is available for an M.S.R.P. of $19.99.

“This new digital version of Gauntlet innovates on past titles while staying true to the brand’s legendary four-player format,” said David Haddad, Executive Vice President, Publishing Operations, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “Multiplayer gameplay is at the core of Gauntlet’s appeal and now gamers have the option to play with friends and family locally and online.”

Players select from four classic fantasy-based characters: Warrior, Wizard, Valkyrie, or Elf. Each character has its own distinctive play style and unique strengths and weaknesses. Upon selecting a playable character, the gameplay is set within dungeons where the object is to fight through the chambers slaying evil creatures and completing challenges. An assortment of special items can be located in each dungeon that can restore the player’s health, unlock doors, and shift the odds in the player’s favor with magical relics which can aid the player in surviving longer in the Gauntlet. The enemies are a vast assortment of fantasy-based monsters, including ghosts, grunts, demons, spiders, sorcerers and skeleton warriors.

Players can improve their heroes’ abilities and powers by unlocking achievements called “perks.” Multiple difficulty settings add to the game’s replayability.

“The Gauntlet franchise has always been a great source of inspiration to us, and we’re extremely proud to work with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to bring back this classic,” said Johan Pilestedt, CEO of Arrowhead Game Studios. “We wanted to create a Gauntlet that was true to the original, with updated visuals and a feature set that resonates with what the original game could have been, had it not been for the technical limitations at the time.”

Gauntlet consists of environments like dusty crypts, dark caves, and fiery dungeons, each with varying styles of gameplay. Some dungeon maps allow players to explore and fight their way through chambers slaying evil creatures, completing challenges and discovering hidden secrets and gold. In other levels, Death itself chases players through an unpredictable labyrinth. There are also endurance maps where players must defeat waves of monsters to survive.

Gauntlet is rated Mature for Violence, Blood and Gore, with a setting to disable the game’s gore.

For more information on Gauntlet, please visit http://www.gauntlet.com, https://www.facebook.com/PlayGauntlet or https://twitter.com/PlayGauntlet

About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc., is a premier worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all platforms, including console, handheld, mobile and PC-based gaming for both internal and third party game titles.

About Arrowhead Game Studios

Based out of Stockholm, Sweden, Arrowhead Game Studios is an award-winning game development company focusing on developing games that are innovative and challenging, targeting primarily creative gamers. The company philosophy is based on three guiding principles - entertainment, innovation and quality. Arrowhead was named one of Game Developer Magazine’s “Top 30 Developers.”

GAUNTLET © 2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

GAUNTLET and all related elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

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Contacts

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