Atari Coin Connection

VOLUME 5 NUMBER 6
OCTOBER 1981
ATARI® Introduces Tempest™
with New QuadraScan™ Color
TARI introduces a whole
new dimension in video
games. Tempest is a vision
of the future with the new ATARI
OuadraScan Color monitor, a spec-
tacular visual experience of dazzling
color and incredible 3-D realism.
Tempest challenges players con -
tinually with changing playfields and
increasingly persistent enemy
attackers.
A special "Super Zapper" control elimi-
nates all invaders on the screen. Used a
second time in the same skill level, the
Super Zapper is only partially effective,
destroying one randomly selected invader.
If the fire button is pressed continuously, it
will shoot short bursts of fire at the enemy
targets. The High Score Table reflects the
scores and initials of the top eight players
and retains the top three when power is off.
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Players are situated at the top of a tube,
looking down at various invaders who
threaten to shoot up the corridors of the
tube and destroy the player. The player
controls a Blaster which can be maneuvered
around the perimeter of the tube to shoot
and destroy the advancing enemies before
they eliminate him.
There are 16 different geometric playfield
configurations. Each time the player elimi-
nates all of the monsters in one playfield he
is transported immediately to a new playfield
and a higher skill level where there are
faster, more hostile invaders. The action
and player challenge never let up.
With the new ATARI Skill-Step TM feature
players may choose from 28 different skill
levels once they have entered the game. As
long as a player has successfully completed
a skill level, he can begin a new game at
that skill level rather than returning to the
beginning skill levels of the game.
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The Upcoming AMOA Show: Preparations are Underway
The AMOA Show is less than a
month away. Here at ATARI, two
departments have been particu-
larly busy preparing for the Show:
Marketing Services and Market
Research.
Marketing Services is already
starting to put together literature
packages for the Show. All of the
information on the latest games
from ATARI, like Centipede TM and
Tempest TM wil l be available. They
will be running a high score con-
test similar to the one held last
year and rewarding the winners
ATARI INC.
with ATARI T-shirts. Other
and will be at the Show with
responsibilities include organizing Mariann and Laura.
the distributor cocktail party, and
Market Research is also pre-
working with Tournament Games, paring for AMOA 1981 . As they
have for the past few years, they
Inc. on the cocktail party being
will be conducting a Tellus TM
held for operators as a part of
Survey, asking operators to tell
the ATARI $50,000.00 World
Championships.
them about their operations. They
Who is Marketing Services?
are interested in what types of
Mariann Layne is Manager of
locations ATARI operators
the department, Laura Bur-
run, what their product mix
is, and what they would
gess is Coordinator and
like to see in future
Linda Summers is Assis-
~an~. Linda has recently
A TAR 1® ATARI games. After they
101ned the department
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compile the information
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gathered at the AMOA they are
better able to anticipate future
operator needs. The results of the
Survey are also published as ···oid
You Know?" research tips in the
Coin Connection every month.
Market Research has also
added another person to their
staff. Mike Friedman, Market
Research Assistant. has been
with ATARI for about four months,
and he will be attending his first
AMOA, helping Mary Takatsuno
and Linda Butcher conduct the
Tellus Survey.
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