Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece

Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by empath75 on Friday January 19, 2018 @08:45PM (#16191554)

Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar is still one of my favorite games of all time. I can’t think of any other game that can get me into that pure zen mind/no-mind state as quickly and for as long.

I was playing it at the video games exhibit at the Smithsonian a couple of years ago and setting all the high scores and eventually a small audience was watching me play and asking me questions about it. I wasn’t sure if the game was the exhibit or I was.

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by igravious on Saturday January 20, 2018 @06:44AM (#16193032)

Omg that's a blast from the past! Is it possible I played this on a speccy 48k? Forty Eight K! Someone's uploaded the OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ9QHGaxdig

Jeff Minter is God. What was the deal with llamas? Llamatron, is there a cooler name?

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by eltoozero on Saturday January 20, 2018 @12:09AM (#16192176)

Two weird bits of trivia about T2K, it supports spinner input via a secret key combo.[0]

Later on T3K for the Nuon (a system which nearly nobody knows about) also supported spinner input but the spinner controller was never actually released.

It wasn’t until 13 years later[1] a buddy and I reversed the settings to enable spinner control via a modified controller, which are extremely rare themselves because who buys a game controller for a DVD player?

[0]: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/202166-tempest-2000-and-rot...

[1]: https://assemblergames.com/threads/spinner-for-tempest-3000-...

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by egypturnash on Friday January 19, 2018 @10:18PM (#16191865)

Have you tried Jeff Minter's other riffs on Tempest and/or any of his other games? Jeff did T2k; his other Tempest riffs include Space Giraffe (360/PC), TXK (PSVita), and Tempest 4000 (forthcoming, maybe). I also highly recommend Polybius (ps4, vr helmet optional)

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by ZenoArrow on Saturday January 20, 2018 @07:09AM (#16193080)

Jeff Minter also created Tempest 3K, but as other commenters have already pointed out, it was for a very obscure system (the Nuon).

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by egypturnash on Sunday January 21, 2018 @05:41PM (#16200499)

yeah, I was kinda focusing on stuff available on consoles more than three hundred people ever saw. :)

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by richev on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:20AM (#16192478)

And following on from that, Tempest X3[1] on the original PlayStation.

https://youtu.be/NLGjqmZ4xhY

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by omgwtfpmr on Friday January 19, 2018 @09:56PM (#16191799)

There's an excellent Android clone, Cyclone 2000.

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by phjesusthatguy3 on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:02PM (#16191996)

TxK on Sony Vita is pretty nice. I wouldn't buy a new platform just for TxK.

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