Tempest 3000

[mb3018]

Someone made a controller adapter for the Nuon for N64 controllers so I got a Nuon. Tempest 3000 is so good. It plays similarly to all the other Tempest games, but it has my favorite graphics style out of all of them. It's like one of a kind. All the enemies and objects are vector shapes, and the backgrounds have this TV-acid-vision look. I think it would've been funny back in 2000/2001 to get this DVD player and have this game on it.

[p-saurus]

I still have my NUON hooked up and this is the only really good game on the system. It has my favorite music of any Llamasoft gasme and it's my favorite version of Tempest, although I haven't played the Vita version of TxK.

[mb3018]

I was busy this week but I played some more T3K today and got to level 85. It's kind of a shock going from playing Tempest 2000 and Tempest 4000 with a spinner and 60 FPS but I really like this game. My favorite thing about it is the way it looks, it's really unique, I like it even more than Space Giraffe. The different enemies in this are fun like the all-lanes-spiker and the counter-attack-pulsar. They make for some fun situations.

[mb3018]

I beat T3K, I really liked it. I still would say T2K is better gameplay wise, but T3K is such a cool looking game and very fun in its own way. I hope the Nuon emulator crashing gets figured out in the future, and also somehow getting T3K running at a better framerate would be nice.

[Stephen]

Congrats - I never got anywhere remotely close to beating this game. I really need to revisit it, especially with a spinner now that some new Nuon controller options are an option (the Polyface chip has been reverse engineered and 2 adapters are now available).