There are three separate games, and Gold puts them all on one cartridge.
- Dungeon Horde (Normal) – the original game: my own mazes in the Gauntlet II style, the original Inty heroes, a FLOOR ON/OFF option, no hero option.
- Dungeon Horde Classic – same engine, but with Gauntlet 1–style mazes, the 16×16 ZX Spectrum–style heroes and a HEROES option (INTY with the thief, or ARCADE with the valkyrie).
- Dungeon Horde Quest – a quest mode inspired by Gauntlet IV on the Mega Drive, on the same engine.
Gold = Normal + Classic + Quest + Battle on one cartridge. You pick the game by scrolling the title screens left/right, and each game keeps its own high-score table.
Standalone Classic vs Classic in Gold: the game itself is identical: same build, same levels, heroes, speeds and options. Gold’s Classic has two extras:
- a RECORD mode in the player menu: one player, one credit, and a password at every level so you can carry on from there (like Record mode in Gauntlet IV);
- CLEAR takes you back to the game-selection screens, which the standalone version doesn’t have.
The same goes for Quest: in Gold it also has BATTLE.