Gadget Gauntlet (BBG revisit!)

Before Boing Boing Gadgets and Offworld were reabsorbed by the mother entity, we used to put up pointless, bizarre flash game parodies now and again. I just chanced across the preliminary work for Gadget Gauntlet, one such project that we never completed. The idea would have been the classic game Gauntlet II, but instead of being a Wizard, Warrior, Valkyrie or Elf mindlessly emptying a dungeon of treasure, you would have been one of four types of shopper wandering a zombie-infested mall to loot consumer durables. I thought you may enjoy the concept art and theme tune.

Listen: Gadget Gauntlet

• [Daemon]

  “Fucking Hipster is finally about to die.”

• [klobouk]

  Please, please finish this.

• [the Other michael]

  Would love to see wonderful things like this completed….. or even semi-playable, or just a Potemkin-village walkthrough….

• [Anonymous]

  Make the game!!

• [optuser]

  NOW. I want to play this NOW NOW NOW.

  Gauntlet taught me some bad philosophy as a kid. That philosophy is “if you’re going to die, scoop as much treasure as you can before you go.”

• [dan]

  I miss the separate BBG and Offworld. It was nice to have more BoingBoing every day.

• [sirkowski]

  Shouldn’t the Fucking Hipster be an enemy? I’d chop off his head very ironically.

• [Anonymous]

  what does the song sing:”let your w h i t e power”???

• [Dig Duggler]

  Awesome, just awesome. This one deserves to be finished.

• [Anonymous]

  You guys rock.

  I still play super blockquote from time to time..

  http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/16/super-blockquote-hew.html

• [chairface]

  F*cking hipster needs Pabst, badly!

• [Anonymous]

  please, PLEASE go back to making these. RIP, BBG.

• [Flashman]

  Shops do not hurt other players yet.

• [dole]

  ^ this.

  The world can never have enough (good) Gauntlet clones.