October 1981 · Game
Tempest (1981)
Atari's tube shooter by Dave Theurer, one of the first games to use Atari's Color-QuadraScan vector display.
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Facts
- Date
- October 1981
- Kind
- Game: Vector shooter
- Maker or publisher
- Atari
- Platforms
- Arcade
- Genre
- Vector shooter
Source: Wikipedia
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