Tempest
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Tempest is a 1981 arcade game by Atari Inc., designed and programmed by Dave Theurer. It takes place on a three-dimensional surface, sometimes wrapped into a tube, which is viewed from one end and is divided into a dozen or more segments or lanes. The player controls a claw-shaped spaceship (named Blaster) that crawls along the near edge of the playfield, moving from segment to segment. Tempest was one of the first games to use Atari's Color-QuadraScan vector display technolo
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- Developer
- Atari
- Publisher
- Atari · Atari Corporation · Superior Software Ltd. · Electric Dreams Software
- Release · Arcade
- Worldwide — Oct 1981
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