Gauntlet (Dark Chambers Hack)

This project began as an effort to modify Dark Chambers for the Atari 2600 in the direction of the arcade game Gauntlet (Atari 1985). What started as a few graphics changes and minor modifications to game play slowly evolved into a full 32k conversion, thanks to a good disassembly and especially Adam Clayton’s phenomenal Dark Chambers engine for the VCS.

The game is now complete, with the following features:

* Play all 4 characters from the arcade, in a 1-player game or in any 2-player combination

* Each character starts with a special ability:

Warrior: extra shot power

Valkyrie: extra armor

Wizard: extra magic power

Elf: extra shot speed

* Fight 3 levels of ghosts, grunts, demons, and sorcerors; 2 levels of generators and bones; and death.

* collect food, treasure, keys, and magic potions

* increase your abilities with 4 different upgrade potions as well as invisibility amulets

* play 80 unique levels, including the first 7 modeled on the arcade intro levels