Gauntlet and Rampart Dual Pack
- Gauntlet – The hack-and-slash action-adbenture comes to your Game Boy. Team up and collect special weapons and magical powers, then use them to kill hordes of evil minions and hideous creatures.
- Rampart – The peace of the realm is over. Battles rage throughout the land, while enemy lords in nearby castles shoot their cannons at your parapet.
Product Description
With Gauntlet / Rampart you’ll delight in classic early computer gaming and arcade simulation. Hack away at medieval monsters and defend your castle from rival lords.
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This isnt’ a review talking about the quality of the sports meeting or how excellent the translation is. This is simply a public service to anyone like me who likes Gauntlet on the NES. It’s the only version I ever played so when I thought I could have it on my GBA, of course I was excited. But, before long after buy I realized it is not the same game as the NES version. So that’s really all I have to say about it. It may be a splendid game for all I know but I took it back because it’s not what I wanted. So if you’re like me, and want to take the NES version of Gauntlet with you…sorry, no dice. You’ll have to do what I did and drag the NES back out and find yourself a copy of the original cartridge. (Worth it, by the way.)
Rating: 1 / 5
The front of the box shows what the game looked like in Arcades.
The back of the box, shows the sad let down that is the GBA version!
Now if that isn’t deceptive advertising, I don’t know what is!!
Rating: 1 / 5
This game is what you would remember from the original nintendo. It is still fun and challenging. If you want a game to taunt your mind; with ancient graphics it will do it.
Rating: 3 / 5
I have never loved Gauntlet so I won’t even talk about it, but I have always loved playing Rampart until this release. This edition of Rampart is horribly buggy and far more hard than any previous rendition. The cursor for firing is very hard to control, making it hard to target specific items, especially infantry; killing infantry is not worth risking hurt to your own structures. As previously mentioned, the building phase grinds to a halt every time you place a wall piece. Despite all grown-up versions doing so and even the manual for this game stating so, when you wall in one of the terrible guy infantry units, it does not get ruined; instead, you have a small infantry unit all set up to ruin your castle the first chance they get. If you want to play Rampart, go find a different version (e.g., the SNES version was much more fun than this).
Rating: 1 / 5
I was pleased to see more GBA cartridges of classic arcade compilations at the electronics store. Destination Software is putting out several of these in 2005. With so many to choose from, I chose on “Gauntlet/Rampart”. Finally–I can play the arcade classic “Gauntlet” on the go!
I know that there are CPU limitations to get the GBA to fully emulate these arcade titles, but I have a feeling that at least this cartridge was rushed to production. Yes, the graphics are nearly “pixel exact” but these sports meeting don’t feel like their arcade counterparts.
In Gauntlet, the sprite crash does not work correctly and the music in between the levels is missing. On top of that, whenever you complete a level, you’re required to press the A button.
As for Rampart, every time you lay down a piece of wall, the game will pause for three seconds. And regardless of how many castles you encircle, you only get 2 bonus cannons!
If this sounds like I’m nitpicking it’s just that I expect arcade conversions to closely resemble the original as closely as possible. I get the depression that the development team which did the arcade conversions only had a half-hearted respect for the originals or that the quality assurance team was not allowed to point out the discrepancies.
I don’t mind the lack of a save feature or multi-player mode because it is more well-located to play sports meeting on the GBA by yourself. The conundrum that I have with this cartridge is the fact that the sports meeting do not feel or quite play like the originals.
Rating: 2 / 5