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I've already discussed him in depth, but click the checkbox to see what happens if you go toe-to-toe with him!

Your spy has been well-scouted: his enemy's most common attack car comes with shields to block his machineguns.

In keeping with slasher tradition, by the time you hear the signature musical sting, it's too late. When you're rowing across the lake and Jason dog-paddles up, he gets a "free hit."

Fortunately this only happens when you have to row across the lake -- and that's only when Jason's attacking the campers in the lake cabin (of course, since you'll spend about 1/3rd of your time rescuing those campers, you'll get plenty of tickets to the Jason Voorhees swim meet).

One of the many odd decisions from this game involves starting you on the "overworld" map (which you have to traverse to get to the fun parts). It's also full of invulnerable one-hit-kills-you machinery. The manhole in the picture above is where you start; the dead turtle in Picture 2 is me losing 1/4th of my Renaissance reptiles two seconds into the game. A job well done, Ultra games!

One of the very rare (and useful) subweapons will let you destroy these monster-generators; otherwise you're stuck being ended by bees.

(To lessen the sting*, in later levels they just have a constant stream of nuisance-enemies pouring in from off screen at all times, so you don't need to worry that the game makes you risk your great subweapons every time you choose to open its ubiquitous unmarked treasure chests. For example, there's no "Bat Hive" or "Imp Hive" to kick over later on, just a constant barrage of nigh-unavoidable punishment).

In Gauntlet II, even The Grim Reaper has an Achilles Heal, in the form of the game's only and most important special weapon: the Magic-Potion-Bomb things. But there's no counter to these puddles of green ooze; you either outrun them or take the pain.

These gray rotating rectangles don't respond to laser-blasts or ground-bombs, they just shuffle end-over-end towards you (and through you, if you don't fly out of the way).

We'll end like we began (with a click-here-for-animation option). But contrary to appearances, crashing your red sportscar into this checkered-flag-waving cheshire causes you to lose, too.

It's another baffling decision; because it's an old arcade-style game, there's few mechanics* involved: you paint the floors, collect barrels, and launch barrels at the pursuing police. But with disturbing regularity these barrel-proof kitties appear in various spots on the road, and force you to scroll them off-screen and double back again until they've left.