Gauntlet Series Retrospective Part 1: Gauntlet

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Insert Disk collects Gauntlet for the Spectrum, NES and Sega Master System.
Today's retro game review is Gauntlet for the Spectrum, NES and Sega Master System. This retro gaming classic is the focus of part 1 of the 10 part Insert-Disk Gauntlet Mini Series Where we will take a look back at Gauntlet, Gauntlet The Deeper Dungeons, Gauntlet 2, Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, Gauntlet 3, Gauntlet 4, Gauntlet Legends, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, Gauntlet: Slayer Edition as well as a bonus look at the Gauntlet origin story in Dandy and Dark Chambers.
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@andersdenkend 4 года назад

Oh hell yeah, I'll watch this whole series now.

@Insertdiskgames 4 года назад

Thanks for sticking with it. An important game franchise that's sadly gone a bit un-noticed in recent years.

@calebb7012 5 лет назад

Thanks for making such a detailed video on Gauntlet. I've been revisiting legends, I used to play it all the time with my late father at our local arcade.

@RoamingTraveller 4 года назад

Really feel like gauntlet paved the way for games like Diablo it's a shame this IP doesnt get the recognition and appraisal it deserves

@Insertdiskgames 4 года назад

I agree, I actually saw a comment once on a Gauntet reboot video from someone that Gauntlet ripped Diablo off (how wrong they were). It's why I enjoy making these videos so that gamers can get an idea of gaming history, even if just in a small way. Gauntlet of course took its lead from Dungeons and Dragons but that's another story :-)

@TitanFind 2 года назад

@@Insertdiskgames If you want to look for a very clear precedent to Gauntlet, check out "Quest for the Rings" on the Odyssey II/Videopac.

@casedistorted Год назад

I think we had the Tengen Gauntlet original game on the Nes back when I was a kid living in the Chicago area in the mid to late 80's. I remember that game very fondly, it was the first time I played Gauntlet. I used to love those black Tengen cartridges, we had so many of those games, I wish I still owned them but I think I sold most of them back around 2009 when my grandmother died. Growing up in America I never knew the Sega Master System even existed, not until like ten years after the Genesis came out did I even hear about it. I guess we just had Nintendo and stuff, the Genesis was the first Sega console I ever heard of.

@alexshadowfax1119 Год назад

Glad I took a chance on your video, you never know what your going to get, but I enjoy your authenticity, enthusiasm and video style. Im going to go through your backlog and subscribe. Have a great day everyone and thank you.

@Insertdiskgames Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it. I'm very much a collector first and foremost and a RU-vidr second. I originally started the channel as a "show and tell" of my collection. I'm on a break with the channel but do plan to be back at some point with some really cool stuff. As far as I know, I have at least one early arcade item from Sega that has never had a youtube video made about it. I hope you enjoy the back catalogue.

@ariusscorpius7705 3 года назад

So I finally found another gaming series that I can actually sit back, relax, and enjoy. I've seen a lot on "popular" games, but haven't found anyone who decided to put this much time into this game other than the niche group of people who actually played the series in the first place. Thanks man! Subbed and smacked the bell.

@Insertdiskgames 3 года назад

Thank you. Yeah, it's easy to get the big view numbers with popular series. Gauntlet has a fan base but most of us are pushing their 40's now :-) Still a great series even if it took a few weird decisions along the way.

@hotdoggington6962 3 года назад

A well written documentary filled with relevant footage...voiced with a smashing accent...about one of the best arcade series ever...and there's ten parts o_o my body is ready. You rock dude

@Insertdiskgames 3 года назад

Thanks for the support, oh yes it's a long series. A lot of Gauntlet playing took place when I was making these episodes. I hope you enjoy the rest of the series.

@banaweekidane2630 11 месяцев назад

Wow im so pumped to watch this !!! October 2023 i just got the game today for nes lol better late than never

@maskedbadass6802 2 года назад

After more than a decade of obliviousness this is the video that helped me realize that the MC Chris song "The Tussin" sampled the main theme of this game. All this time I figured the nerdy rapper remixed a classical orchestral piece or something like that.

@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 5 лет назад

Both Gauntlet and Paperboy on the Sega Master System prove that good games by Tiertex Design Studios do exist.

@PlanetZoidstar 2 года назад

4-Player Gauntlet is the best experience for sheer fun...But sub-optimal if you want to get far (at least in the Classic Era) since everyone is constantly losing HP, more players = more monsters, and not much more food. 1 Player Questor is the optimal way to play, but less fun since you miss out on the manic 4-Player experience.

@claudiocodigoni6588 2 года назад

Dios deben sacar uno nuevo! Que siga la jugabilidad de Seven Sorrow con motores gráficos de la actualidad!!!!

@petMonster28 Год назад

The Tengen/NES version is polished but not overly detailed to the point where it feels a little too cluttered like the Sega version, in my opinion. After all, the game action gets quite insane, at times. But even putting that aside, the Tengen/NES version has one of the greatest 8-bit soundtracks of all time. I can't believe you didn't mention it or play a clip of the music! But yeah, the music puts the NES version WAY above the rest for me.

@Momoka7 3 года назад

15:38 Yeah the Sega Master System. I know from back then, that the Sega Master System was stronger with more colors then the NES, but the controllers only had a 4directional "cross" and 2 buttons, for some reason they kept the Pause and Start button on the console itself. Despite it being stronger, few games actually made good use of the Sega Master System, Gauntlet among some of them did.

@Insertdiskgames 3 года назад

Gauntlet on the Master System was a great little conversion. It looks and feels very faithful to the original.

@n21james1 4 года назад

Great video. I absolutely love this series

@Insertdiskgames 4 года назад

Thank you, it's one of my favorite series of games. There's a lot of history to get through :-)

@CSM100MK2 2 года назад

after at least 4 years of not playing, I started a game of Gauntlet Legacy Slayer Edition on my ps4 and it didn't take long for some Merlin to join. 2 days in a row. the game still lives! but that was a terrible version, so short and simplistic levels but the variety of 4 unlockable weapon types for each character did at least help

@johnavy1722 3 года назад

Thanks for your video.I have a few versions of this game.The latest being the arcade 1up.It can be mindless fun but being a quarter muncher it gets a bit stale if one just continually adds credits and plays over 100 levels. That’s the thing though, one can play over and over and just enjoy the romping through dungeons experience.I remember vaguely seeing this in arcades in the day but as a teenager myself I was appealed at the time by asteroids and Galaga in those days and Gauntlet came a little later but now however I have taken interest and can see how in mid 80’s with D&D being popular how people must’ve been amazed by this game.Great video.I look forward to pt 2

@Insertdiskgames 3 года назад

Thanks for the comment. I really enjoyed the original. I'm lucky enough to have played on the original 4 player arcade edition when I was young. Then many many hours of Gauntlet 2 on the Commodore Amiga as my main experience. I still enjoy the series today.

@raziyatheseeker Год назад

Holy crap, the Master System port blew me away from your footage alone! And seems to have ran fast compared to other Master System games too. No wonder they put Gauntlet 4 onto the Genesis. Also, I now know that Atari is to Tengen as Konami is to Ultra Games. Huh.

@Insertdiskgames Год назад

The Master System edition is really fun to play. Not quite arcade standard in graphics but certainly there in fun and spirit.

@caleb5194 4 года назад

Nice video

@patrickrutherford5553 4 года назад

I remember the tiger handheld version of gauntlet!

@Insertdiskgames 4 года назад

Perhaps the lowest resolution edition of the series but not the worst :-)

@patrickrutherford5553 4 года назад

Insert Disk I would definitely still play this if I still had it

@stannicolae4623 5 лет назад

you re videos are incredibily good

@Insertdiskgames 5 лет назад

Welcome to the channel, I hope that you find lots of videos to enjoy here.

@valletas 4 года назад

@@Insertdiskgames do youmake videos as a hobbie? You dont get many views from then probaly because they are almost all from niche topics

@Insertdiskgames 4 года назад

@@valletas Yes, just a hobby. Collecting was my main hobby but I found very few RU-vid channels that covered games in the detail I wanted. So I made my own channel :-)

@MorreskiBear Год назад

It's painful to watch a player absorbing ghosts. I used to play so carefully.

@patrickrutherford5553 4 года назад

What kind of person would hit the thumbs down button on a video such as this?

@Insertdiskgames 4 года назад

You would be surprised. The channel tends to sit at 98%+ positive which is really good for RU-vid. However, there are some people that you just can't please and will dislike just about anything :-)

@fcoreguera3878 3 года назад

In case anyone is interested, here are links to a fan made board game about Gauntlet, for Tabletop Simulator. It has two versions: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2544649674&searchtext=gauntlet+arcade+cards steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2544655405&searchtext=gauntlet+arcade+dice

@MalabarTheGreat 3 года назад

Before Diablo.... There was Gauntlet.

@Insertdiskgames 3 года назад

Oh yes, very much the inspiration for Diablo. In turn inspired by Dungeons and Dragons. Quite a nerdy family tree going on :-)

@MalabarTheGreat 3 года назад

@@Insertdiskgames the best family tree! I've recently been discovering the joys of the less-remembered 80s fantasy video games. -- Game series like Ultima, Hydlide, and Gauntlet. Gems, all the way.

@bouncingbluesoul5270 5 лет назад

Xybots started out life as Gauntlet 3D

@Insertdiskgames 5 лет назад

I read that recently when I was doing research for the series. It's surprising as Xybots ended up looking and feeling very different to anything that was ever released in the Gauntlet series. I'm not sure if it would have been a good move or not if Xybots had kept the fantasy/dungeon theme. It would have been an interesting release.

@Sinn0100 11 месяцев назад

Wait a minute...you say Guantlet was never about the graphics...I think we will have to agree to disagree. Guantlet's success is dependent on three very important criteria. The first is enemy count. Without a high number of enemies on screen it just isn't Guantlet. The second is having the ability to push those enemy counts at a stable frame rate. You can have thousands of enemies on screen but if the game is chugging then the experience isn't Guantlet. The third is being able to play with at least 2 players simultaneously without the entire experience crashing and burning. Addendum- Here is my question...I don't know about the micros so I will leave them out of this. How did the Nes produce such a good port of Guantlet? I'm almost positive that it nor the Master System used background tiles to achieve good ports of Guantlet.

@cacophonic7 Год назад

Did you actually collect anything Gauntlet related? I see only rom footage that could have been stolen from anyone else…

@Insertdiskgames Год назад

100% every retro game featured on my channel I own the original physical copy, it's pretty much the only rule I have. For some games I do use emulation to capture the footage as it's the cleanest way to deliver the content. I do record everything myself though :-)

@vgbouncehouse Год назад

Why did you waste all this time on these lousy ports rather than exploring the various levels? None of them ever present the number of enemies the coin-op has. The only game that approached the arcade’s version in quality was Rainbow Arts’ unlicensed Garrison for the Amiga.

@Insertdiskgames Год назад

Hi, I tend to focus my channel on collecting and physical media. I've played many of the original Gauntlet series in the arcades. Sadly, I don't own the machines at home. Hopefully one day though :-) This series was more about exploring at least 1 version of each release.