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I picked this up today. A Gauntlet II was in the eating area of a fast-food restaurant I worked at as a teenager. My lunch breaks consisted of me playing this game instead of eating. This is a Gauntlet converted to a Gauntlet II.
 

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congrats! really cool that you scored the same game..I am still looking for the game I played when I was a kid, Vanguard.
 
Awesome man! Gauntlet is great when combined with friends and beer. I always loved the speech as well.
 
I'd love to find a ganuntlet cheap in my area, loved that game,

Anyone ever make it to the treasure room where the voice starts counting down from 10 when you have like 30 seconds left, and when you hit the exit the game says "Just Kidding"

Loved that game!
 
I'd love to find a ganuntlet cheap in my area, loved that game,

Anyone ever make it to the treasure room where the voice starts counting down from 10 when you have like 30 seconds left, and when you hit the exit the game says "Just Kidding"

Loved that game!
I really like the little bits of humour Atari put into some of their games. There's a couple of funny things in I, Robot as well.
 
That is a great pick-up and looks to be in really nice shape. We played a fair share of the original game as kids and it ate quarters like mad!

I wonder if it will be as much fun without the "pressure" of knowing that if you die it will cost another quarter to continue? That might sound silly but to a grade/middle school kid in the early 80's a quarter was a decent amount of money. Having $5 in quarters was a king's ransom.
 
Congrats on the pickup. I love my Gauntlet II. I've got a new control panel wiring harness on order right now, and I can't wait to get it consistently running all four players without hiccups.

The Gauntlet games defined the arcade experience for me back then, and despite understanding where others are coming from when they say freeplay supposedly kills the game, I don't agree at all. It might have to do with my attachment to the game as a kid, but I can play the heck out of the thing, and the multiplayer is just the greatest.

Enjoy it!
 
Free play can cause the game to loose a bit of it's charm but there are ways to make it interesting. Take a shot on a particular phase, take a shot when you reach the treasure room, play your it on gauntlet two lol, keep it on real quaters and give prizes away for those who use least amount of quarters. Book keeping options will tell you who used the most quarters and least. Comfy seats are important because standing for 4 to 8 hours does get tiring.
 
keep it on real quaters and give prizes away for those who use least amount of quarters.

THIS. So many arcade games get a lot of their charm back if you're challenging yourself to finish in the fewest credits. Most games will tell you somehow how many credits you burned through, or you could just keep track on your own.
 
After getting it home and checking everything out it just needs a little TLC. The control panel needs a little love: A few of the leaf switches need to be rebuilt and one is missing on one of the joysticks.

Anyone know of a good source for the leaf switches?

the monitor has a bit of burn-in on the score side, but that's kinda normal for this game and does not show up in game-play.
 

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