True Gaming Friends: Gauntlet Edition
By Shaun Hatton - April 8th, 2008
The recent news that Gauntlet DS has been announced obviously made me remember that the original Gauntlet is perhaps the worst game to play unless you have a TGF.
Games like the quarter-munching Gauntlet were made to be played with a large group of friends. Preferably three friends, so one for each character. As you play with your friends, it will become painfully apparent just minutes in that one of your friends is a treasure whore IE: he or she will often hold up the progress of the team to make a mad dash for an out-of-the-way treasure chest.
It’s okay at first because you can just yell at your TGF or punch him/her in the shoulder in a jocular fashion. You may even say something along the lines of “Hey Jerkface! You’re holding us up! Don’t shoot the food! Argh!”
Your True Gaming Friend will always laugh at you when you complain about being held up or about getting the food shot. After all, you will likely be playing the game on a compilation disc featuring unlimited continues, so what does it matter?
But it DOES matter, TGF! Don’t hog all the treasure while the rest of us are narrowly escaping death from the oncoming horde of dungeon-crawling enemies. Now we know why you always choose the elf: so you can run around and grab the treasure before the rest of us!
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5 responses so far:We should just call this “The Aggies Files”.
Oh, we are always talking about Adam in these. It’s because he’s the best/worst/best person in the world to play video games with. He’ll be playing Gauntlet or any other older game while constantly talking about how much he hates the game.
Ask him about Super Smash TV sometime.
Smash TV is gross. Like those Mojo episodes of X-men: Adventures the cartoon. Half Human half tank cyborgs are way high up on my “ick” scale.
That being said: what else is the point of Gauntlet? It’s all about the LOOT. To be fair, you guys were pretty into pressing start enough times so that your # of lives was almost as high as my score!
Too bad you can’t kill your teammates in Gauntlet.
If you dropped treasure, I’d smash open your innards in a heartbeat. :)