# Help me ID this old arcade game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 15, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814 "2010-07-15T18:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814/1 "2010-07-15T18:58:30Z")
This has been bothering me for a while; There was a game I played way back when that I remember only dimly, and not including the name. It was roughly the same era as Magic Sword, I think, so…early 90s. It was an isometric view fantasy game featuring 4 characters, a knight (with a morning star flail thing), a sorceress, and two I forget - rather like a very much ‘teched up’ Gauntlet, since the characters were relatively large and detailed. Sadly, I can’t recall too much else about it. Other than that it was brutally hard. Does anyone have a clue what I’m talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814/2 "2010-07-15T19:02:00Z")
A really really really long shot. But it sounds very vaguely like a Nintendo game called Knights Cross. Whether or not there was an arcade version, I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814/3 "2010-07-15T19:38:34Z")
Sounds like it could be Gauntlet Legends, though that was late 90s. > **[Gauntlet Legends - Videogame by Atari Games](https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7926)** > > The Gauntlet Legends coin-operated Videogame by Atari Games (circa 1998, and it's history and background, photos, repair help, manuals, for sale and wanted lists, and census survey), and it's history and background, photos, repair help, manuals, for... ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814/4 "2010-07-15T21:20:11Z")
No, it wasn’t actually a Gauntlet title, and it was sprite art, not 3d. Sadly, I don’t have much to go on. Other than the info provided, and a vague memory of poisonous mushrooms. 😉 Oh, and the knight had at least two styles of attack - flinging his flail out in a very narrow straight line that did a lot of damage but was hard to hit anything small with, and whipping it around in a wide circle, which was easy to hit with but didn’t hardly do any damage. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814/5 "2010-07-15T22:00:02Z")
[Breywood](http://www.gamesdbase.com/game.aspx?mame=breywood)? ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Keen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Commander\_Keen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Keen)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814/6 "2010-07-16T00:51:07Z")
It’s probably not it (primarily because it isn’t an arcade game as far as I know), but just in case you remembered that part wrong, my best guess is Arcus Odyssey. Matches: [ul] [li]Isometric fantasy, somewhat Gauntlet-style gameplay[/li][li]Sprite-based graphics[/li][li]Four characters, one of whom is a knight that uses a chain/whip type weapon. Another is a wizard[/li][li]You can do a straight whip (more damage), or spin the whip around[/li][li]Early 90s[/li][/ul] Doesn’t match: [ul] [li]Only on home consoles, not arcade[/li][li]The warrior character is a woman and the mage is a man, seems to be the opposite of what you remember[/li][li]No poisonous mushrooms that I know of[/li][/ul] [Here’s a screenshot](http://www.takegame.com/action/pictures/arcusodyssey.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ponzicar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@ponzicar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ponzicar)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814/7 "2010-07-16T04:37:39Z")
Sounds like it could be Gate of Doom or Dark Seal, depending on what part of the world you played it in. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814/8 "2010-07-16T23:53:15Z")
Was it **[Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Axe:_The_Revenge_of_Death_Adder)**? I was obsessed with the game for a few months, back in 1993 or 1994, but I can’t remember much about it now. It might be the game you are thinking of. ETA: from around the same time was [Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Doom) ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-old-arcade-game/546814/9 "2010-07-17T01:25:47Z")
> [@ponzicar](#): > > Sounds like it could be Gate of Doom or Dark Seal, depending on what part of the world you played it in. Yes! That’s it! Gate of Doom! I love this place.