In episode 13, we have a “Dandy” of a show where we crawl through two dungeon based shooters. First, we review the XEGS game, Dark Chambers. Then we pit it against the 8-bit arcade version of Gauntlet. Who will be victorious?

News

• Gauntlet hack from Dark Chambers for the Atari 2600 (CDSGame)
• Northwest Pinball and ArcadeShow
• Gauntletrevisited by creator Ed Logg (Speaks at GDC 12) on YouTube
• “Dandy”
  • Sourcecode on Git (Multiple languages)
  • John Palevich: Dandy and Deep Blue C Compiler (AnticPodcast Interview 164)
  • Magical Fairy Force, for the 5200, on Atari Age forum thread(Thesis)
• Lotharek'sIncognito board for the Atari 800 (Limited release)
• Dorky'sArcade (Tacoma, Wa, USA)

Dark Chambers

• Publisher by
  • Atari (USA) - 1988
• Developed by Sculptured Software
  • ChuckPeavey

Downloads:

• Cartridge

Gauntlet

• Publisher by
  • Mindscape(US) - 1988
  • US Gold(UK) & Kixx (US Gold Budget label) - 1987
• Developed by Gremlin Graphics
  • Bob Armour (programmer)
  • Bill Allen( Additional programming & sound)
  • Kevin Bulmer (Graphics)
  • Ben Daglish (Music)

Downloads:

• Disk (Mindscape version)