Dark Chambers

Dark Chambers is a 1988 hack and slash game that was developed by John Palevich but never published. It was later modified by Adam Clayton of Sculptured Software for Atari's 2600, 7800, and the XE Game Systems of the Atari 8-bit family.

Although the game resembles the original Gauntlet, Dark Chambers and Gauntlet were released after its father game, "Dandy", was developed. John Palevich designed a game called "Dandy" in 1983 for the Atari Program Exchange (APX). Two years later, in 1985, Gauntlet was released by Ed Logg, who cited Dandy as inspiration. Palevich planned a lawsuit against Logg, but settled out of court. Three years later, in 1988, Atari republished Dandy as Dark Chambers.