# What video game is this?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-is-this/534569>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 1, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-is-this/534569 "2010-04-01T13:04:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-is-this/534569/1 "2010-04-01T13:04:14Z")

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It had a joystick you could rotate to make the hero’s shield go up and down. He was just walking slowly from the left to the right, full body, and the other button was for his sword. The shield could be put to low block, middle or high. Various flying weapons and fireballs would come whizzing at you and if you got hit you’d lose a bit of gladiator-type armor.

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**Author:** ![thebenn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@thebenn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thebenn)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-is-this/534569/2 "2010-04-01T13:11:11Z")

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It was called…wait for it… “Gladiator”

> **[Gladiator (video game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(arcade_game))**
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> Gladiator, known in Japan as Ougon no Shiro (黄金の城, lit. "Golden Castle"), is an arcade video game developed by Allumer and published in 1986 by Taito. It was followed by a sequel titled Blandia. Home ports of Gladiator were released for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 as Great Gurianos; the Spectrum version was intentionally made unwinnable.
> The player controls a gladiator/knight named Great Gurianos as he walks through a castle. The joystick direction moves the character left and...

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**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-is-this/534569/3 "2010-04-01T18:45:08Z")

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[moovderating]  
Since this is about video games, I moved it from “Got Cite?” to “The Lame Room”  
[/moovderating]

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-is-this/534569/4 "2010-04-01T19:21:02Z")

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Was it The one that if you moved the shield up and down fast enough it became a glowing arc that blocked everything?

And eventually you walked around in your underwear?

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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-video-game-is-this/534569/5 "2010-04-01T22:13:20Z")

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> [@wolfman](#):
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> Was it The one that if you moved the shield up and down fast enough it became a glowing arc that blocked everything?
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> And eventually you walked around in your underwear?

Apparently. Perv that I was, I kept trying to get the female’s top to come off.