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Gauntlet Legends for Nintendo 64
Gauntlet Legends for Nintendo 64 is an action RPG in which you travel through fantasy realms to defeat the demon Skorne. You begin as a Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard or Archer. Each hero has particular strengths, making close-range and ranged attacks feel different. From an angled overhead view, you bombard groups of monsters, destroy the nests that produce them and search the rubble for gold, food and keys. The action continues while you move; there is no turn-based system that pauses the fighting.
Your hero grows stronger by gaining experience. Between expeditions, you buy supplies and improvements from Sumner, then return to battle with the character you have developed. Runestones, switches and hidden passages give you a reason to look beyond the next enemy. Food keeps you going, while magic can clear some space when opponents surround you. Special collectible coins and hidden heroes also reward another search through familiar areas.
You can play alone or cooperate locally on the same screen. Four players require four controllers and a separate Expansion Pak installed in the console. You save your character and progress on a separate Controller Pak. A Rumble Pak is optional. The cartridge described here contains the original Nintendo 64 edition, not the later Dreamcast adaptation or Gauntlet: Dark Legacy.
Region and language
Our Nintendo 64 games are PAL editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With Gauntlet Legends for Nintendo 64, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of Gauntlet Legends
Atari Games developed Gauntlet Legends for Nintendo 64; Midway released it in 1999. It was based on the 3D Gauntlet Legends arcade game from 1998, which reworked the cooperative monster hunting of the older Gauntlet games. Four recognisable hero types remained the starting point, but the journey gained three-dimensional environments and characters that could continue to grow. On the home console, saving such a hero became an important part of the longer journey, alongside the immediate fighting associated with the series.
During development, producer Scot Amos explained that the Nintendo 64 team worked within Atari itself, close to the arcade game's creators. The console version received its own technical foundation and new areas, while cartridge capacity forced decisions about content. The inventory and the order in which worlds opened up also received their own treatment. The result was therefore not an unchanged copy of the coin-operated game, but an adaptation for repeated sessions at home.
The Controller Pak linked those sessions together. Amos explained that players could take their saved hero to a friend's house and continue fighting together there. Building experience alone and later joining others were thus part of the same system. The PlayStation and Dreamcast editions appeared separately and differ in content and implementation. Their extra areas or elements from Dark Legacy must therefore not be attributed to this Nintendo 64 cartridge.
Similar games for Nintendo 64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time likewise has you search for keys, defeat monsters and explore dangerous buildings on Nintendo 64. Link, however, solves many spatial puzzles using individual weapons and items. Gauntlet Legends more often centres on groups of enemies and strengthening your hero. Moreover, you can travel through its environments together, whereas Link's journey in Ocarina of Time remains a single-player adventure.
Paper Mario shares the development of a character and the collection of useful supplies for a longer journey on Nintendo 64. There, you choose attacks in turns and use partners with individual abilities. Gauntlet Legends keeps the battles running as you move and shoot. Decisions therefore concern your distance, available magic and position among approaching monsters more than the next command in a menu.
Castlevania also takes you past monsters, dangerous buildings and hidden items on Nintendo 64. Reinhardt and Carrie, however, must make precise jumps and watch their distance from individual opponents. Gauntlet Legends views the action from higher up and more often fills the route with groups of enemies. Advancing together and permanently developing your hero give its battles a different connection from the solitary journey towards Dracula.
Holy Magic Century, called Quest 64 in North America, connects magic with the growth of a young adventurer on Nintendo 64. You travel as Brian through villages and landscapes and choose elemental spells during battles. Gauntlet Legends uses several hero types and continuous action against groups of monsters. Growth and magical supplies are the similarities; fighting through those same battles together is an important difference.
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon shares three-dimensional exploration, unusual powers and a changing cast of heroes on Nintendo 64. In Goemon's adventure, one player controls the selected character at a time, with villages, jumps and giant robot battles providing variety. Gauntlet Legends builds its journey around direct monster fighting and lets several players cooperate simultaneously. You therefore share the action with real teammates, rather than merely choosing between available characters.
