Recent content by JimVR4

I'm very late to this discussion but have been an avid Tempest player since it first came out. I go to CAX every year just to play them again and always meet other enthusiasts there. When I played alot back in the day I could start at level 9 and play past level 65 on a single quarter on...

Do you know about the 20th anniversary PC edition? http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Lair-20th-Anniversary-pc/dp/B0002MHEZU/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1310365612&sr=1-2

Tubes is definitely tougher. Here's a vid of me playing tubes at CAX2010 http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150226011645580

This is me playing Tempest at CAX2010. I reached around level 68 but could not advance further. Years ago I was able to score near 1,000,000 starting from level 81 (910,000 bonus) http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150226701315580

Sunnyvale Fry's is huge too. I don't own any games but I've been a gamer since '78. Will be looking forward to being there both days and setting highs on my favorites. Should add I'm local to San Jose and might be able to help out

I must have played at least 10 hours over the two days. A bunch of that was on Tempest Tubes on Saturday and on Sunday I was playing on a small upright near that time travel game. When I left Sunday I had all the high scores on that one with the lowest at about 660,000.

What you do is spray bullets in small areas not occupied by pulsars. When the flippers come out on the rim you fire when they are in the cell next to you. Spray across the cells in between the pulses. When they pulse they turn white and the top of the tube shows a gap if a pulsar is there...

I would LOVE to get a machine. I played them in college when they first came out and I was one of the first to master the Invisible levels (starting at 65). I was able to raise the starting level to 81 (Green, 910000 bonus) on machines that had extra lives at 20,000 although it sometimes took...