Where are all the Gauntlets?

joeycuda

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Collecting since '99, and I've yet to see one in a raid/sale situation. Never owned it. Never known of a local collector to have it. Never seen a restoration thread on it. It hasn't seemed popular in terms of repro art. However, it's Atari, late classic era, and I always thought it was a great game to play on the C64 and DOS ports.

I realize the replay may not be there, but where's the love?
 
I saw one today, and come to think of it, it might have actually been the first one I have seen in person since it was current.

Collecting since '99, and I've yet to see one in a raid/sale situation. Never owned it. Never known of a local collector to have it. Never seen a restoration thread on it. It hasn't seemed popular in terms of repro art. However, it's Atari, late classic era, and I always thought it was a great game to play on the C64 and DOS ports.

I realize the replay may not be there, but where's the love?
 
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been trying to sell my multi for a while. got someone coming thursday hopefully lol

I really do love the game but its a 4 player game and I rarely have even 1 more to play with let alone 3, and its the same crap every time.. how far can you get before you get tired of playing
 
Yeah, mine was from a KLOVer and he found it as a crime fighters which was also a gauntlet 2. Did just see one for sale on CL in Ohio yesterday.
 
I think it was just such a strange looking cabinet that they threw most of them away. some were converted, but only to a handful of games. It's kind of like how you don't see 720 too much, or Xybots, they're out there but not a bunch of them because the cabinet wasn't easy to kit. Or hell Missile Command even. Strange cabinet, they probably threw a lot of them in the trash.
 
What sounds in the arcade BITD told you the "golden era" was over?

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pook.. i have that same shitty conversion lol. I have collected all the parts to switch it back, and all the parts to make a gauntlet 2
 
never really understood the appeal of the game other than if you like giving all of your quarters to one machine just to keep your character alive.
 
Gauntlet is a Coin munching game. If you fill the machine full of credits and just play your going to get tired of it really quick.

Having a stack of coins 4 or 8 and Put them 10 to 20 feet away. It gives your heath point a value and you play better.

Never play the game alone. It just not as fun.

And Why Do I know this? I got 3 of them Laughs.
 
Collecting since '99, and I've yet to see one in a raid/sale situation. Never owned it. Never known of a local collector to have it. Never seen a restoration thread on it. It hasn't seemed popular in terms of repro art. However, it's Atari, late classic era, and I always thought it was a great game to play on the C64 and DOS ports.

I realize the replay may not be there, but where's the love?

We operated one in my vintage arcade (Desert Sky Games in Gilbert, AZ pluggity plug) from when we opened in August until we gave up and sold it last month. It didn't earn worth a damn. It hasn't aged well, I guess. We still make $10-$15 a week on TRON and somewhat less on Star Wars, and of course much more on newer fighting games like MVC2 and MKII. But Gauntlet, some weeks there would be like two bucks in there. Total. Your guess is as good as mine.
 
Must be a regional thing. I've seen a ton of them in the last ten years. Just saw one this weekend.

We've discussed this a bunch of times already, but Gauntlet is cleverly designed to keep the players putting quarters in in a way that does not translate well at all at home on free play. Given that people on KLOV in general have a difficult time putting an artificial credit limit in their gameplay and you wind up with a game hardly anyone keeps.

Don't get me wrong, I definitely have nostalgia for the game (I and II) and I think it was a great concept for its intended environment.
 
Given that people on KLOV in general have a difficult time putting an artificial credit limit in their gameplay and you wind up with a game hardly anyone keeps.
yup never understood this. people here say beat-em-ups have no replay value. really? how many can you beat completely on one quarter? one life? no energy lost?
 
I have a Guantlet that i purchased from a friend of mine and Canadian Gaming legend Dwayne Richard, he at one time set the world record on it. On the playability, it's not my fav game, but.... My kids love it! I have gone to work at 8am and returned at 4:30 and they were still playing it! They love the game, not sure why but they do. I enjoying playing for a while with them just because they are excited to play with me but on my own it gets boring after a while.
 
I have a Gauntlet (running a Gauntlet II board currently). It gets a lot of play when I have parties. Some people really get drawn in by this one. People who haven't played the game since it was in the arcade will sit there and feed it tokens all night.

Since I run my machines on tokens, it's easy to say: Let's see how far all of us can get on $2 each" or something like that.

At the end of the day, it's worth having this beast around just to hear the organ music it pumps out during attract mode.
 
I was wondering why it couldn't be altered so that light shines through the marquee and now see it's a metal panel. You'd have to cut a section out and have a piece of acrylic stuck to the overlay, like 720, then add a light. Looks like it 'could' be done, but I wonder how the light would look shining through the overlay material.

The game is a hoss and the replay wouldn't be the best. Still, I'd like to restore one of these beasts someday. I'd say that this is one of those suited to MAME, but the layout with the 4 joysticks and the cool art make this game unique enough..
 
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