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25 August 2021, 00:08
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Location: England
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Tempest, best arcade vector game ever?!
Today I finally got to relive one of my favourite arcade games today via MAME and a propper spinner controller, I'm still not that good at it but what a joy it was to play what I consider one of the best vector games ever to come out of the golden era of arcade gaming, so much so I decided to record a little "let's play" video of it showing off those lovely colours by setting the bloom level up and showing all the different coloured levels.
I hope you enjoy my little video if interested: [ Show youtube player ] Here is the entire game all bloomed up for those extra glowy lines,...with the help of a bit of an immunity cheat  [ Show youtube player ] |
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25 August 2021, 00:27
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Derezzed User
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Tallahassee / USA
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*sigh* I owned a Tempest arcade cabinet in my teens. I bought it from a guy on my paper route for $50. Fixed it up and, oh, man, it was so awesome. When we moved my game would have put us over our weight allowance so I had to sell it. It still haunts me.
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25 August 2021, 09:01
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Dream Merchant
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Short answer: yes.
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25 August 2021, 09:50
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Location: France
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StarWars I’d say.
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25 August 2021, 11:37
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Workbitch 1.3
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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starwars for me too, edited - originally mentioned i-robot but went back and looked and that was filled polys.
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25 August 2021, 12:09
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Location: UK
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Surely the classic Asteroids...
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25 August 2021, 12:20
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Zone Friend
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Location: France
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Asteroids I can understand that because it was maybe the first one I played, Warzone was iterating too because of it’s interface.
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25 August 2021, 12:28
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Location: UK
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Although I do love Temppest too..
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25 August 2021, 16:26
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Newcastle, UK
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Tempest on the Jaguar with a rotary converted controller is pretty good. Prefer it to the Saturn version. Leeds Arcade Club have the cabinet
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25 August 2021, 19:19
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Star wars crowd checking in here too.
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25 August 2021, 23:53
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cheeky scoundrel
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I'm going to go with Tempest, because I'm a sucker for colorful games
 It might be simple lines but they still managed to give a really good sense of depth.
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26 August 2021, 10:04
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[ Show youtube player ]
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26 August 2021, 11:20
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Speedbump gimme goosebump
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I didn't play extensively many vector games, mostly Berzerk on the Vectrex. Black Widow seems nice though. Tempest, I wanted to like this one (or its equivalent Tempest X3 on the PS1) but soon noticed it was very hard and lacked depth. If you're like me, a Berzerk fan, check Berzerk II on MAME (Frenzy).
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