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How can anyone live without a spinner?
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--- Quote from: vputz on July 12, 2004, 08:43:09 pm ---It's just that good a game. Simple, elegant, tricky, and requires a lot of attention.
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That depends upon your goal I guess.
My 5-year-old nephew just likes to spin the spinner in one direction as quickly as he can, and shoot as he goes around.
If things get too hectic for him, he hits the Super Zapper.
I think he enjoys the game more than I do, so.....
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quarterstringer:
I remember why I spent so many hours on Tempest, if you ended the game on some certain scores, it gave you 40 free games.
MrBond:
It's humbling to think that the game is older than I am...hehe
I actually have played Tempest in the arcade while on vacation; it has become a sort of ritual, a flashback to something I had never experienced...placing me in a kind of quasi trance...ok, maybe not, but I still think the game is genuinely fun and unique. The spinner control is probably one of the coolest I've played with. I'd really like to get a nice one. Currently I have an Arkanoid spinner installed, but it 'sticks' now and then, with one of the spokes on the gears worn away. (replacement parts available?)
--- Quote from: quarterstringer on July 12, 2004, 09:13:56 pm ---I remember why I spent so many hours on Tempest, if you ended the game on some certain scores, it gave you 40 free games.
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Wow! You learn something knew every day! From history.dat:
- TIPS AND TRICKS -
These are cheats that were apparently left in by somebody at Atari. They were removed in ROM 217 and 222 software revision 2. First, you must complete level 8 and get a score with the format XXYYZZ : XX must be greater than 16, YY between 29 and 60, ZZ is a code listed below...
00 - freeze screen
01 - access bookkeeping totals
05 - allows playing during attract mode
06 - 40 free credits
11 - 40 free credits
12 - 40 free credits
14 - credit sound without actual credit
15 - credit sound without actual credit
16 - 40 free credits
17 - 40 free credits
18 - 40 free credits
41 - switch last 2 digits of score
42 - increase score quickly
46 - demonstration mode - start at any level, up to level 81
50 - player moves by itself
51 - player moves by itself
60 - objects drift down
66 - objects drift right
67 - objects jump
68 - objects drift up
70 - objects drift up
After code '05' (play during attract mode) is activated, the following cheats become available...
Set the last two digits to 46 : Random-colored level with wrong enemies.
Set the last two digits to 48 : 255 extra lives.
Hoagie_one:
wow, that would explain why i got to play tempest all day once when i was a kid. i walked up to the game and there was like 35 credits on it...i played for an hour, at least......i was a sucky tempest player when i was 8
pcdoctor:
I owned a Tempest about 5 years ago.
The machine started acting up.
I assumed it was the vector monitor but a guy told me it was the motherboard.
I ended up selling it.
Little did I realize that I was unable to put other games inside it but vector stuff.
I then got a Crystal Castles.
I was in the same mess again.
Only trackball and horizontal games.
I ended up selling that too.
I plan on getting a mame cabinet specifically for tempest, crystal castles, marble madness, centipede and millepede.
It will have a four way joystick too.
I guess was an Atari fan in the 80's.
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