Gauntlet (1985 video game)

Gauntlet
Gauntlet
	North American arcade flyer
Developer	Atari Games
Publishers	Atari Games Arcade NA/EU: Atari Games; JP: Namco; Ports; Tengen; U.S. Gold; ;
Designer	Ed Logg
Programmers	Ed Logg, Bob Flanagan
Artists	Sam Comstock; Susan G. McBride; Alan J. Murphy; Will Noble;
Composers	Brad Fuller; Hal Canon; Earl Vickers; Arcade, NES; Hal Canon; Earl Vickers; CPC, ZX Spectrum; Ben Daglish; ;
Series	Gauntlet
Platform	Arcade ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit, Apple IIGS, Apple II, NES, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Master System;
Release	October 15, 1985 Arcade UK: October 15, 1985; NA: November 1985; JP: February 1986; ZX Spectrum UK: 1986; C64 EU: 1986; NA: September 1987; CPC, MSX EU: 1986; Atari ST October 1987; Atari 8-bit December 1987; Apple IIGS March 1988; Apple II April 1988; NES NA: July 1988; MS-DOS 1988; Macintosh May 1989; Master System EU: November 1990; ;
Genres	Hack and slash, dungeon crawl
Modes	Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system	Atari Gauntlet

Gauntlet is a 1985 hack and slash video game developed and published by Atari Games for arcades. It is one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games. The core design of Gauntlet comes from the 1983 game Dandy for the Atari 8-bit computers, which resulted in a threat of legal action. It also has similarities to the 1983 maze game Time Bandit.

The arcade version of Gauntlet was released in October 1985, initially available only as a dedicated four-player cabinet. Atari distributed a total of 7,848 arcade units. In Japan, the game was released by Namco in February 1986. Atari later released a two-player cabinet variant in June 1986, aimed at operators who could not afford or did not have sufficient space for the four-player version.