Technoid Mutant Beats Gauntletak (On Level One) 

This is super cool. I love the use of inertia to allow the player to move and shoot in all directions at the same time despite the 8+1 input device. I never saw this back in the day, I would have loved it and it would have no doubt influenced me a great deal.

Dude! This game is one of my all time favorites! One of the few games I actually beat as a teen. The destructable terrain was part of the catch..

Great game! I do sort of a retro/emulated games stream weekly and I may have to play this one soon.

I should note that there are several keyboard inputs that make this game more playable. X is to stop your person, to drill for example. Or Space, which cycles through weapon types. In this example I use guns only from level 0 through 30-ish, after I have to start using guided missiles or lose. The truth is that as you advance all weapons you see delivered at you are also deliverable BY you if you read the instruction manual. I am a level 1 master for having read the documentation included witht the freeware release of "GAUNTLET". Several years after the release of this game, ATARI released a game of the same name. Our author therefore renamed the game "GAUNTLETAK". I'm told the resolution is Atari graphics 7.5, a relief to me as I had thought for many years that the author had found a dynamic four-color 320x200 mode suitable for this. As it turns out, it is a standard Antic mode.

1:18 Great move. Flew right between the two enemy ships! This is one of the great Atari 8-bit games. Right up there with MULE, Archon and Star Raiders. Atari should have paid Lebeau and made a cartridge version for the XEGS instead of fighting him over the name. It would have sold a lot of consoles for them.

This game does NOT use Graphics 8. It's Graphics 7+ (160x200, 4 colors).

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