If you complete a level that's designated as a starting point, you can then start a new game from there. Continuing is Painful: Normally, new games can only be started as high as Level 9 (Level 15 in certain revisions).Everything changes colors after the cycle of 16 playfields resets, however. Color-Coded Characters: As you start out, your player is yellow, the playfield's blue, the spikes are green and the enemies are red & purple.Lanes still light up if you're in them, or if a Pulsar zaps them. Blackout Basement: In levels 65 to 80, the playfield is all black.
Later on in the Yellow levels they can split into Fuseballs and Pulsars.
Asteroids Monster: The Tankers will split into two Flippers when shot at. By the time the developers threw in the towel on making credible-looking monsters with the game's vector graphics, it was too late to change them. This was because they were designed and printed at a time when the plan was for them to look like that. The Artifact: The illustrations on the side of the original cabinet show actual monsters rather than the abstract squiggles that serve as the enemies/targets in the actual game. Not to be confused with William Shakespeare's The Tempest.įor the Urban Legend version, see Polybius. Go nuts, guys!" This video game was released in 1981. "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. It's a Shoot 'Em Up, and fun enough that it doesn't need any excuse. The game came into creation when programmer Dave Theurer came up with the idea after having a nightmare about monsters crawling out of a hole. When you shoot them all, you go whizzing down the tube. Lots of colorful things are crawling up the tube at you, and shooting things at you. 
Game Start dialouge in TxK and Tempest 4000
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