Re: Vector programming

With Tempest, the only deterrent for new players to try the higher levels was
that if you couldn't make it past that first level, you wouldn't get a bonus
*AND* you lost all of your lives REAL QUICK doing it.

It was taunting you! It was saying,

" Hey YOU! I bet you can't start at Level 9! I bet you can't do it and I'll bet
you xxxxx points that you CAN'T!!!"

What makes the game real irratating is when you pump quarters into it to get to
xxx level, and you fail, start at xxx level again, and really booger it up, and
start at xxx - 2 level the next time! You have to waste effort gaining ground!

Here in a few weeks I'm going to put my Tempest "on location" at a teen hangout
the church runs. I bet it'll fry their young "car drivin" and "ninja-fighten"
minds....

Move over Pokemon....... : )

    - Matt

> Games that allow you to skip the loser levels keep the *expert*
> players coming back again and again. Games that force you to play the
> "tick-tack-toe" levels before you start having any kind of fun are
> ones we always had a tendency to ignore.

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