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From: alberti@cs.umn.edu (Bob Alberti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Gauntlet II
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.160118.15626@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 90 16:01:18 GMT
References: <2112@charon.cwi.nl> <2096@enea.se>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>There is a special hardware gadget you have to buy, that should be
>connected to the printer port.

>I personally don't think the game [Gauntlet II] is worth the extra money
>(even though
>it's not that expensive), but I think there are several more games that
>can make use of the same interface.

>I don't recall any of these games being good enough either...

Two questions about Gauntlet II?  First, how do you add health during play
(like adding a quarter during a video game?)  I've seen it somewhere, but
my office is such a mess (and it's been a while since I played it), so I
can't recall.  Second, is there any point to the game?  When I was playing
it regularly I went down many, many levels and they were all the same.  In
the arcades, I played regular Gauntlet to level 150, and never saw anything
new, just an endless thud-and-blunder purgatory.
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