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From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Games not seen on Amiga
Message-ID: <90229.223453JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 18 Aug 90 02:34:53 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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There was one arcade game, way back in the early 80's I was totally
addicted to and pumped quarter after quarter into....  Went by the
name of "Tempest."  Anyone remember it?  It was a 3-D vector-graphics
oriented game with 50 or so boards.  You controlled your shooter which
you could move around your end of the board with a knob that rotated
all 360 degrees with no stop (some boards were circular so you could
go around and around as you wished.)  You shot at little swirls and
tankers and flippers  that came towards your shooter from the other end
of the 3-D board, and when you shot them all you rocketed down the
board (avoiding hte "spikes") into space, and then landed on the next
board.

Loved that game.  Anyone know why we haven't seen it on Amiga (or any
other home computer)?  I can see that it took too much CPU for a C-64
or Apple II, but Amiga could do it.  I also thought maybe the special
knob would make it difficult to implement, but I see two solutions:

1) Make it keyboard controlled.  Not a nice thought for you mouse-
jockeys, but it should work fine to use the left and right cursors
for clockwise and counter-clockwise movement of the shooter.

2) Include a special controller with the software.  This could also
serve as the copy-protection;  pirates couldn't play the game without
the special controller.   It wouldn't have to be a complex device,
so the product price wouldn't be increased much.

Thoughts?

                                                            Kurt
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