" pick an idea from an already-approved (Atari) catalogue of ideas..,"
Now that's a book I'd like to see. I wonder if it ever made it out of the company to the world at large.
Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece
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Re: Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece
#62In the 90s I worked at a company near door to the Dave Theurers company that made Debabelizer. We used Debabelizer for our video work and encountered a bug we could only reproduce locally. Dave walked over to our office with his laptop, diagnosed the bug and fixed it on the spot. I was amazed both by how quickly he found/fixed it, and how nice he was. Real sharp guy.
Re: Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried Jeff Minter's other riffs on Tempest and/or any of his other games? Jeff did T2k; his other Tempest riffs include Space Giraffe (360/PC), TXK (PSVita), and Tempest 4000 (forthcoming, maybe). I also highly recommend Polybius (ps4, vr helmet optional)
Jeff Minter also created Tempest 3K, but as other commenters have already pointed out, it was for a very obscure system (the Nuon).
yeah, I was kinda focusing on stuff available on consoles more than three hundred people ever saw. :)
Re: Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece
#64personally always been a bigger fan of Eugene Jarvis who as a teen write Defender, Stargate and Robotron. I did own Tempest too great game.
Defender was my game. Played it all the time. Got a big callus on my left thumb. There is a machine at the Alamo Drafthouse in SF.
Having said that, I was still a big fan of Tempest.