The new Gauntlet dungeon crawler: shallow for today, terrific for 1985

The moment a colleague told me he felt the new Gauntlet was “soulless,” I knew we had a failure to communicate.

We were each playing through a preview of Arrowhead Game Studios/Warner Bros.’ new PC release of Gauntlet, due out Sept. 23 for $20. After a few hours of play, I was chugging along on my elf with fond thoughts of the original 1985 arcade game.