Sunday, August 29, 2010

Tempest

Fast and Frantic gameplay, novel forced 3D perspective and eye popping color vector graphics made Tempest a head turner when it arrived in arcades.  I think I first played it at a Showbiz pizza.  I really enjoyed this game but I was also frustrated by the difficulty, and I recall really hating the crazy enemies that got to the top of the "tube" I was shooting down and then started flipping along the top rim to eat me.  Those guys were NOT cool.
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  1. EricSeptember 1, 2010 at 6:26 PM

    My brother Jeff had one of these machines in his garage that he fixed up about 7 years ago. It was a really fun yet difficult game.

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  2. Josh PeckSeptember 3, 2010 at 6:03 AM

    This was always a must play for me whenever I ran across it. Loved it! I remember it was sometimes possible to kill those pesky red flippers when they got to the top without the Superzapper. Of course, there were always those freakin' spikes to contend with. Damn freakin' spikes.

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