Review of Gauntlet (Atari, 1985)

“The original Gauntlet was released with no ending. The hundred or so levels were randomised and looped for as long as play lasted. Atari saw Gauntlet as a process, a game that was played for its own sake and not to reach completion. The adventurers continue forever until their life drains out, their quest ultimately [...]

When one door shuts, another opens

Always open, always closed.

T. VAN KANNEL, at the opening of the world’s first three-winged Wooden Revolving Door, Rector’s Restaurant, Manhattan, 1899.

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People tried to spin the door in both directions.

GILBERT GASSON, double bassist, following [...]