Gauntlet

Dr. Muto is the final thing he had anything to do with.

Prior to that, he did Super Breakout, Asteroids in 1979, Centipede, Millipede, Gauntlet, Gauntlet 2, Tetris for Atari.

It wasn't his game, but Steel Talons, Gauntlet 4, Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey, San Francisco Rush, Rush 2, and San Francisco Rush 2049, and then in 2002, Dr. Muto, and then he got out.

Magnum opus.

Dude, how do you be the guy that made asteroids and not just be a legend?

It was released on the APX.

It's a one to four player gauntlet style game.

Now, I shouldn't say that because Gauntlet's actually a Dandy style game.

And Dark Chambers came out for the Atari 7800, and then Chuck Peavey created the Atari 8-bit port.

I think that the Atari 7800 Dark Chambers might have been done by Chuck Peavey.

It's hard to explain, but it's another version on top of it.

It's basically Dandy with graphical upgrades, and it's a great version of the Atari 8-bit.

And it's one that definitely outshines both the Gauntlet version on the Atari 8-bit and the Gauntlet version on the Commodore 64.

Right.

So it's a, a Gauntlet and Toon Command style sh- scrolling maze game.

You're a time bandit dropped into a world map where you have to pick up a time gate to enter.

So it's a top-down scrolling maze, and you have to grab the treasures, find the exit whilst staying alive.

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in the game.

Um, and there's generators in the game like Gauntlet that the, the, the creatures keep coming out, so you've got to destroy them.

Um, movement is continuous as well.

Alien Syndrome is the third game on our list.

It was released as a Sega arcade game and is a mix of Gauntlet and Aliens that came out in 1987.

Then, in 1988, it was released for both the Atari ST and the NES.

Both the USA and UK releases for the ST were ported by SoftTech, with the UK release by Ace and the USA release by Sega for all of us beleaguered American Atari ST fans.

The average review score for the ST release sits at 77%, which puts it at 228 out of 599 games, or solidly in the top 60 to 70% of reviewed games on Mobi for the Atari ST.

I used to love this game, but it's not without its faults.

In a 92 out of 100% review, The Games Machine UK said that it beat Gauntlet hands down.

Alternatively, another multi-format magazine, Ace, gave it only 51 out of 100, calling the horizontal scrolling jerky and the soundtrack dreary.