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Jan 19, 2018 · As Atari’s first full colour vector game, Tempest not only broke new technical ground, reinforcing Atari’s position at the top of the arcade development scene, but also threw something completely new at the playing public.
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Jun 27, 2012 · It was Atari’s first full color vector game, thus avoiding the need for screen overlays.
Originally called Vortex in the prototype stages, this was Atari's first color vector game. Supposedly, the original creators were trying to develop a 3-D monster game.
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Aug 5, 2011 · Rival developer Atari recognized the potential of vector technology and joined the fray in 1979 with Lunar Lander, a vector arcade game. Between then and 1985, Atari developed numerous iconic vector games.
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Tempest was the first colour vector arcade game by Atari and is not only a golden age masterpiece and loved by many gamers …but the original cabinet also a bit notorious: the hardware, esp. the vector monitor, is somewhat prone to fail. Plus the first rev. ROMs it shipped with had software bugs which allowed people to gain massive amounts of free c...
One nice thing about Tempest is that it is one of the few vector games where earlier, development versions survived: the romsets named (by Clay Cowgill) ‘Aliens’ and ‘Vortex’ which then became part of Cowgill’s Tempest multikit. Vortex is pretty near to Tempest development-wise but Aliens a much earlier work-in-progress. Both are supported by the V...
When the ‘demo mode’ is active the game allows skipping a level immediately by pressing 1: on controller 1. However, high scores are not stored and temporary in this mode. The game supports either an analog Vectrex joystick plus its buttons to emulate the arcade spinner or uses a ‘grey code’ digital spinner, the ones used by Atari in their driving ...
Reset ScoresDemo Mode: On/Off (1: skips level)Language: English/Spanish/French/GermanLevel: Tempest/Tempest TubesAtari's first vector game. The player pilots a lunar landing module, trying to guide it to an appropriate landing site and set it down gently so it doesn't disintegrate on impact.
Jul 8, 2016 · A major leap forward came with the release of Tempest in 1981 – Atari’s first colour vector game on it’s new “Quadrascan Color” vector monitor. Capable of displaying multiple vivid colours on screen, Dave Theurer’s masterpiece heralded a new era of full colour vector displays and was a huge success.
