To: Norm Lenhart
Am I one of the only people alive that preferred Tempest to the other classic arcade games?
The brat in the AWFUL Steven Spielberg rendition of "It's a Good Life" in the Twilight Zone movie was playing it in the beginning. My high school economics teacher preferred it as it was pure abstraction.
Personally, I found the color vector graphics unengaging, though better than the vector Battlezone.
Tempest may have suffered because any upgrade kits required a special paddle controller, rather than the more common joystick arrangement, plus the need for a vertical color vector screen. Tempest was DEFINITELY top 10 in the year it came out, with lots of serious competition. The only other color vector games that come to mind were Star Trek (Sega), Star Wars (Atari), Space Fury (Sega) and Asteroids 3 (Atari), though there were others that don't come to mind.
20 posted on
05/28/2015 4:57:58 PM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Dr. Sivana
I loved the vector games. There was one I only got to play once called , I think, Crystal Castles. It was Crystal something or other. It had a series of counter-rotating vector lines forming circles within each other and you had to shoot through them to get to the center.
Nothing by modern standards but incredible then.
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