With all of the big new games releasing in the coming months, it can be difficult to look back on the past. That difficulty resides with looking at the simple pixels resembling characters and digital bass tears resembling sound, then subsequently saying” These were video games!?” It sure is a sight to behold how far we have come in terms of video games, but the past teaches us the extent of what video game design was capable of, as well as the ideas that were presented that w

Above: TxK Gameplay from the PlayStation Vita version, a spiritual spinoff of Tempest Legendary video game developer Jeff Minter and Atari has announced that they are joining forces to create and release a new incarnation of a historically influential video game, Tempest. Announced this week, Tempest 4000 will be the newest incarnation of the classic 3D tube shooter, Tempest. The last successor was the 1994 remake of the original, Tempest 2000, along with a spiritual spinoff,