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Megadeth - 02/09/2025
I got this game by the time I was finishing the elementary school (or starting high-school immy after that - ?), from our users group, and it was a rip of an XEGS cartridge one of the members bought while visiting Germany. I'm not sure how he managed to put the contents of the cartridge onto a diskette, but we were all glad he did so.

This game was and still is just GREAT!!! I liked its predecessor already, Dandy, but this one took it to the next level, in terms of graphics, gameplay and overall atmosphere. You really feel you are in the dungeon, fighting all the abominations, and a certain feeling of claustrophobia sets in slowly, especially if you play the game alone at night, with the lights off.. :-)

LbnL, I consider this game vastly better and appealing than the much-lauded Gauntlet, which I could never find a true liking to - it looked quite ugly and played sluggishly. I sort-of liked it on other platforms (like the C64), but still, it was fun in with two players only.
techman - 13/03/2024
great game but the 7800 version is better-- it has smoother scrolling
twh - 27/03/2016
much better than Gauntlet. And very similiar to the 7800 (which had much better hardware).
Overall quite a late production.. 1988 Wow!

s2325 - 05/12/2007
masterpiece
Andreas Magenheimer - 28/02/2006
This is a great Gauntlet clone from the "father" of Gauntlet J.H. Palevich. Remember that his game Dandy was available long before the huge success of Gauntlet. Luckily, Atari released Dark Chambers on a XE/XEGS cart. for us cart. collectors and in my eyes the graphics of Dark Chambers are by far better than those of the A8 version of Gauntlet. So, if you like Gauntlet (and similar games), go and get Dark Chambers... and Dandy as well...

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Information

GenreArcade - GauntletYear1988
LanguageMachine LanguagePublisherAtari
ControlsJoystick, KeyboardDeveloperSculptured Software
Players1, 2 (sim.)CountryUSA
Programmer(s)

Peavey, Chuck

LicenseCommercial
Graphic Artist(s)Medium Cartridge
SoundRarity
Cover Artist(s)SerialRX8101
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