Dandy

Flick screen Gauntlet complete with clashing spectrumesque graphics, god awful sound and lousy gameplay anyone... No?.. Didn't think so.
I know Dandy was technically the original that Gauntlet was 'inspired' by but this salvaged half finished game is pretty terrible.
One to play once purely from a complete-ist perspective, just so you can say you have and move on.

One game I've never played and I've played a loooot of bad games... I think I'll pass... Something

Gameplay Video Link:
youtube.com/watch?v=uPisxM_pETU

Back in the day I played the ZX Spectrum version. The C64 version seems to be better. Faster gameplay which makes it more fun to play. Shame there is no music. Dandy game is a very acceptable Gauntlet-type game.

The Original Atari 800 Dandy is miles better than this piece of buggy junk. It even supported four players! Why the C64 "version" is nothing like the original it is supposed to be based on is a mystery for the ages. Still, this is fun in a masochistic sort of way... Until the game reliably crashes at the end of the second treasure room. You'll never see the third dungeon series, unless you jump there immediately, but then you'll lack the keys to get very far. In short, you can't win the game due to the bugs.

Awful !
Graphics: 42
Sound: 13
Gameplay: 24

I picked this one up because I loved Gauntlet (and the cover artwork - a fatal flaw of character that has landed me with some horrendous games over the years). The Spectrumish graphics turned me off though, so I never really played it.

I heard this game was all the in the 1980's I played it and it total shit when it came to games

But who programmed the C64 version of this game, or converted it one should say, as the graphics are very spectrum like. I do not like games in hires mode on C64, at least it should be a combo with multicolor so that the stuff looks like its standing out more. In spectrum games the figures seem to blend in with the background and it makes it look very primitive. Esp. Because of the limitation that one can not change colors other than by each 8x8 pixel, and this makes figures change color when moving over the background too. Well, enuff said on the speccy graphics, this may not be the right forum.

This looked awful but I found it quite addictive. Not in the same league as Gauntlet though.

Dandy was an Atari 8-bit game in the first place. It was originally released by APX (Atari Program Exchange).

The creator of Dandy didn't sue Atari at all.

Gauntlet was based on a computer game called "Dandy" for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Jack Palevich, the author of Dandy, planned to sue Atari for plagiarizing their design, but he got a "free" Gauntlet machine from Atari Coinop. In return, he signed papers saying that he wouldn't try to sue them (He took the Gauntlet machine into work...).

Approximately 8, 000 units were produced.

Despite comments to the contrary, Gauntlet was infact a clone of Dandy - which first appeared on the Apple II. Infact, the creator of Dandy sued Atari for stealing their concept.

If this is a try to compete with GAUNTLET, they've failed completly. Again an Electric Dreams game with messy graphics and slow game-play.