Gantelet II

Gantelet II is a clone of the arcade hit Gauntlet II, and is a sequel to Gantelet. The game has multiple levels of Dungeons&Dragons style dungeon levels to go through, where you have to collect treasures, defeat monsters and navigate maze like levels. This game pushed the multi-player boundary on the Coco 3 even more than the original version did; it allowed up to 4 players simultaneously (2 on the joysticks, and 2 crammed on the left and right sides of the keybaord). This made playing quite crammed, but it could be done (the original arcade game had four sets of joystick controls).

Thus you had 4 characters you could choose from: Elf, Wizard, Valkyrie and Warrior. In the game, you have to keep up your health (by eating food), collect keys to unlock doors, and generally have to help each other (the game is cooperative with multiplayer) to progress through the levels. You also can gather potions, used to kill whole screens of monsters,as well as the Death monsters, which are otherwise pretty well indestructable. Besides having much improved graphics on the Coco 3 (very close to the arcade), it also had digitized sound from the original game... just missing the speech and music of the original arcade version.

The arcade version itself added many new features, which are included in the Coco 3 version: the 'IT' monster, which tags a player so that all monsters go after them, and not the other players; potions with specific powers, like increasing your speed, shot strength, etc.; teleportation squares, movable walls, and many others. One of the best Coco 3 ports of an arcade game, and one of the best arcade games as well.