![]() ![]() ![]() The first 16 levels slowly introduce the different enemy units, and then the color of the playfield changes and you cycle through again, but with more, and faster. Long story short, if you’ve never seen the higher levels of Tempest, you haven’t played the whole game. We got to the point where I could individually get a score above 650,000, and a friend of mine could roll it over at 1,000,000. The resulting bonus is much larger than the score you can get from working your way up starting at the first level. One fluke of Tempest is that it allows you to ramp up your score by starting a new game within 60 seconds of a previous one, which lets you hop to a higher initial level. I was lucky enough to buy a Tempest machine back in the 80’s, and my circle of friends got pretty good at playing it. Robotron is a great game, and clearly we could have a holy war about which is the GOAT. ![]()
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