wbt

About

Tempest is a 1981 tube shooter arcade game developed and published by Atari and designed by Dave Theurer, in which the player controls a claw-shaped blaster that snaps between lanes on a three-dimensional tube-like surface, destroying enemies and obstacles as they emerge from the center. wbt ("wannabe tempest") is a Java clone of the arcade game Tempest. It's playable and fairly true to the original — implementing enemies like exes, ex pods, and spike columns with spinners, plus a superzapper special weapon — though the author notes it isn't a full feature-complete clone.

How it differs from the original

The author describes it as fairly faithful but not a full feature-complete clone of the original Tempest.

Getting started

Controls use the arrow keys to move, spacebar to fire, and S to trigger the superzapper, which instantly destroys all on-screen exes except pods. Build it with the included ant build file, or compile and run manually with javac and java.

Known issues & limitations

• gameplay: Not a full feature-complete clone of the original Tempest game.