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Gauntlet
Developer(s)	Atari Games, Tengen, U.S. Gold, Epyx, Midway Games
Publisher(s)	Atari Games, Tengen, U.S. Gold, Mindscape, Midway Games
Year introduced	1985
Genre(s)	Action, RPG

Gauntlet is a series of eight action and role-playing games which were released by Atari Games, Tengen, and Midway Games between 1985 and 2005.

• Gauntlet (Atari Games, Arcade, 1985): The inceptive title in the series was a two- or four-player arcade game by Atari Games, which ran on its own dedicated hardware (a Motorola 68000 running at 7.15909 MHz, with a Motorola M6809 running at 1.789772 MHz); it was later converted to the NES by Tengen (and in 1987, an expansion pack for U.S. Gold's Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, MSX, Amstrad CPC, and Atari ST conversions of the game titled Gauntlet: The Deeper Dungeons was put out by U.S. Gold themselves in the European Union and Mindscape in the United States).

• Gauntlet II (Atari Games, Arcade, 1986): The second title in the series, which was released a year after the original, was again a two- or four-player arcade game by Atari Games, which ran on the same hardware as its predecessor; there would not be another arcade title in the series for 12 years.

• Gauntlet: The Third Encounter (Epyx/Atari Games, Atari Lynx, 1990): The third title in the series, which was released four years after the second one, was developed up by Epyx for Atari Games, and was a four-player console game that was exclusive to the ill-fated Atari Lynx handheld system.

• Gauntlet III: The Final Quest (U.S. Gold/Tengen, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, 1990): The fourth title in the series, which was released the same year as the third one, was developed by U.S. Gold for Tengen and was a two-player computer game which was released for three of the most popular 8-bit home computers (along with two of the most popular 16-bit ones) at the time of its production.

• Gauntlet IV (Tengen, Sega Genesis, 1993): The fifth title in the series, put out three years after the third and fourth ones, was a four-player console game by Tengen that was exclusive to the Sega Genesis system; it was also the last title in the series that was developed and published by Tengen.

• Gauntlet Legends (Atari Games, Arcade, 1998): The sixth (and third arcade) title in the series, which was put out five years after the fifth one, was a four-player arcade game by Atari Games which ran on their Vegas hardware (an MIPS R5000 running at 200 MHz with an Analog Devices ADSP-2104 running at 16 MHz); it was also the last title in the series that was developed and published by the company that started it 13 years previously.

• Gauntlet Dark Legacy (Midway Games, Arcade, 1999): The seventh (and fourth arcade) title in the series (which was released one year after that sixth one) was again a four-player arcade game, but by Midway Games; as with its immediate predecessor, it ran on Atari Games' Vegas hardware.

• Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (Midway Games, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and Xbox 360, 2005): The eighth (and final) title for this series, which was put out six years after the seventh one, was again by Midway Games, and was a four-player console game that was released on three of the most popular home consoles of the time it was produced; it was also the series' only title to allow online play, with each player on a different box.