Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece

Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by trailbits on Friday January 19, 2018 @11:06PM (#16192009)

Best. Game. Ever. Tempest came out when I was in high school, and my buddy and I would rather skip lunch and play this instead of eat each day. We produced a little booklet of each level we kept in our wallets so we could jot down where we had the best luck leaving the flipper while we fired away. I was thrilled to find a working Tempest at the “Game Master” exhibit in San Diego's Balboa Park last summer.

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by crispyambulance on Saturday January 20, 2018 @09:37AM (#16193484)

Goddamnit yes!

Raw, minimalistic, and utterly satisfying. Atari did so much with so little. The end of every level felt like a rush of endorphins.

This needs a youtube link for the young ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af4uPgYcm04 [this one seem to capture the bass in the audio effects]

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by JohnJamesRambo on Saturday January 20, 2018 @05:00AM (#16192817)

I don't think we could ever make people from this generation understand how awesome and mind grabbing this game was back then. It was like nothing I had ever seen and I just wanted to watch it, mesmerized.

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by mcndjxlefnd on Saturday January 20, 2018 @06:33AM (#16193013)

I was born in 1987 and I totally get it. This has always been my favorite retro game; I first encountered it for PS2 I think. I've only found one multicade machine at a local juice bar that had it. I've never before or since been devoted to maintaining high score on a public machine like that before. Unfortunately, that machine is now gone.

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by ZenoArrow on Saturday January 20, 2018 @07:02AM (#16193063)

I remember going to a classic games exhibition in London around the year 2000, I played Tempest for the first time there, it was one of my favourite games I played at the show.

Jeff Minter is clearly a fan as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePW33ZmC04c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS9alQbHHPk

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by bhauer on Saturday January 20, 2018 @04:16PM (#16195464)

Yes! Not only Tempest 2000 and Tempest 3000, Minter's Polybius [1] is very similar to Tempest. (It's also just awesome that Minter named his game Polybius.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VXsAiNdelk

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Re:Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece by 0x445442 on Saturday January 20, 2018 @10:13AM (#16193593)

I'm fortunate enough to live a few miles from this place... https://www.yelp.com/biz/starfighters-arcade-mesa?adjust_cre...

They have Tempest as well.

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