12 Days of Xmas 06 - Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar

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Published on December 18, 2023 6:35:44 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkag0w1HnDg

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Tempest 2000 (1994)

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Halfway through! On the 6th day of Christmas, you go down a deep dark hole to blast away at an endless onslaught of invaders, with some funky music. Often considered one of the strongest Jaguar titles, Tempest 2000 gave the platform some much needed 2-player action.

Tempest 2000 is a tube shooter video game originally developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar in North America on 13 April, 1994. It was released in Europe on 27 June and in Japan on 15 December of the same year, with the Japanese release being published by Mumin Corporation. Part of Atari Corp.'s 2000 series, it is a remake by Jeff Minter of Dave Theurer's 1981 arcade game Tempest, which used Atari's QuadraScan vector color display technology.

Taking control of the claw-shaped Blaster spacecraft from the original game, the player has to survive and travel across multiple levels until the end of an intergalactic war, battling against a variety of enemies that appear on the playfield. Originally an exclusive for the Jaguar, Tempest 2000 was ported to MS-DOS, Macintosh, Sega Saturn, PlayStation and Windows, each with several changes and additions from the original version.

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