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Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar is still one of my favorite games of all time. I can’t think of any other game that can get me into that pure zen mind/no-mind

Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar is still one of my favorite games of all time. I can’t think of any other game that can get me into that pure zen mind/no-mind state as quickly and for as long. I was playing it at the video games exhibit at the Smithsonian a couple of years ago and setting all the high scores and eventually a small audience was watching me play and asking me questions about it. I wasn’t sure if the game was the exhibit or I was.

eltoozero 9y ago
Two weird bits of trivia about T2K, it supports spinner input via a secret key combo.[0] Later on T3K for the Nuon (a system which nearly nobody knows about) also supported spinner input but the spinner controller was never actually released. It wasn’t until 13 years later[1] a buddy and I reversed the settings to enable spinner control via a modified controller, which are extremely rare themselves because who buys a game controller for a DVD player? [0]: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/202166-tempest-2000-and-rotary-encoders/ http://atariage.com/forums/topic/202166-tempest-2000-and-rot... [1]: https://assemblergames.com/threads/spinner-for-tempest-3000-on-nuon-working.62728/ https://assemblergames.com/threads/spinner-for-tempest-3000-...
richev 9y ago
And following on from that, Tempest X3[1] on the original PlayStation. https://youtu.be/NLGjqmZ4xhY https://youtu.be/NLGjqmZ4xhY
omgwtfpmr 9y ago
There's an excellent Android clone, Cyclone 2000.
egypturnash 9y ago
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)
- ZenoArrow 9y ago
  Jeff Minter also created Tempest 3K, but as other commenters have already pointed out, it was for a very obscure system (the Nuon).
  - egypturnash 9y ago
    yeah, I was kinda focusing on stuff available on consoles more than three hundred people ever saw. :)
phjesusthatguy3 9y ago
TxK on Sony Vita is pretty nice. I wouldn't buy a new platform just for TxK.
igravious 9y ago
Omg that's a blast from the past! Is it possible I played this on a speccy 48k? Forty Eight K! Someone's uploaded the OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ9QHGaxdig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ9QHGaxdig Jeff Minter is God. What was the deal with llamas? Llamatron, is there a cooler name?

eltoozero 9y ago

Two weird bits of trivia about T2K, it supports spinner input via a secret key combo.[0] Later on T3K for the Nuon (a system which nearly nobody knows about) also supported spinner input but the spinner controller was never actually released. It wasn’t until 13 years later[1] a buddy and I reversed the settings to enable spinner control via a modified controller, which are extremely rare themselves because who buys a game controller for a DVD player? [0]: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/202166-tempest-2000-and-rotary-encoders/ http://atariage.com/forums/topic/202166-tempest-2000-and-rot... [1]: https://assemblergames.com/threads/spinner-for-tempest-3000-on-nuon-working.62728/ https://assemblergames.com/threads/spinner-for-tempest-3000-...

richev 9y ago

And following on from that, Tempest X3[1] on the original PlayStation. https://youtu.be/NLGjqmZ4xhY https://youtu.be/NLGjqmZ4xhY

omgwtfpmr 9y ago

There's an excellent Android clone, Cyclone 2000.

egypturnash 9y ago

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)

ZenoArrow 9y ago
Jeff Minter also created Tempest 3K, but as other commenters have already pointed out, it was for a very obscure system (the Nuon).
- egypturnash 9y ago
  yeah, I was kinda focusing on stuff available on consoles more than three hundred people ever saw. :)

phjesusthatguy3 9y ago

TxK on Sony Vita is pretty nice. I wouldn't buy a new platform just for TxK.

igravious 9y ago

Omg that's a blast from the past! Is it possible I played this on a speccy 48k? Forty Eight K! Someone's uploaded the OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ9QHGaxdig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ9QHGaxdig Jeff Minter is God. What was the deal with llamas? Llamatron, is there a cooler name?