You're at the top of a long tube. Lots of colorful things are crawling up the tube at you, and shooting things at you. When you shoot them all, you go whizzing down the tube... to yet another tube.
We could make up some kind of
Back Story for this... but we won't
* Okay, there sort of is one: Programmer Dave Thereur came up with the idea after having a nightmare about monsters crawling out of a hole
. It's a
Shoot 'Em Up, and fun enough that it doesn't need any excuse. Besides, we're
Atari, and this is
The Golden Age of Video Games; we know you're going to keep feeding quarters into anything with our logo on it, story or no. Go nuts, guys! This video game was released in 1980.
Not to be confused with
William Shakespeare's
The Tempest, which is a Third Person "Romance" about
a long-lost genius, his beautiful daughter, and the fell things that are discovered in their seeming paradise when a foreign ship crashes there...For the
Urban Legend version, see
Polybius.
Tempest provides examples of:
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