1970-80 arcade game w colored outline elements & you can spin your 'ship'

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 27 Sep 2005 00:19 PDT

Are you thinking of "Tempest" by Atari?
http://www.ifone.com/tempest?tab=screenshots

Please let me know if this is the right game.

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Clarification of Question by bunisan-ga on 27 Sep 2005 14:15 PDT

You're in the right ballpark.  The images were ray-traced outlines,
and it was a shoot-em-up space-type game, but the enemies were
different kinds of shapes which you could see through.

    My favorite trick, that got me quite high scores, was to get my
ship rotating real fast and firing like blazes so as to lay down an
impentrable fire-zone and mow the enemy down like ten-pins.

    Now this was an arcade game played on one of those stand up
machines in what we used to call a penny arcade but is now called a
game room.

    I'd sure like to play that game again.

Good luck!
BUNI-San*

* (Google Answers really screws my name up by not allowing any hyphens
[which they call dashes].)

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 27 Sep 2005 14:19 PDT

How about "Space Duel"? This was a vector graphics game that was
popular in the arcades:

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9647

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Clarification of Question by bunisan-ga on 30 Sep 2005 15:37 PDT

The orientation was not horizontal - you moved your ship in all
directions(2-Dimensionally)  and the shapes came at you from all
directions.

The propulsion of the ship was similar to  another space ship game in
that you could brake by rotating your ship and thrusting in the
opposite direction.  This other game (which I also cannot remember the
name of) had an option to turn on a gravity well in the center of the
space field.

I don't recall the game I'm looking for having two consoles.  I
believe only one person could play at a time.

Good luck!

BUNI-San
You fired by pressing a button.  The thrusting may have been
controlled the same way.

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 30 Sep 2005 18:47 PDT

Asteroids?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids

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Clarification of Question by bunisan-ga on 30 Sep 2005 21:36 PDT

Nope.  As I recall, there was absolutely no background image - not even stars...

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 30 Sep 2005 22:04 PDT

There's no background image in Asteroids -- just a ship and the
asteroids of various sizes that are threatening it.  See this image:

"Image:Asteroi1.png"
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Asteroi1.png

What do you think now?

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Clarification of Question by bunisan-ga on 01 Oct 2005 09:39 PDT

It wasn't Asteroids.  The shapes are geometric - like pyramids, cubes,
didekahedrons, etc.

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 01 Oct 2005 13:41 PDT

Zektor? 

http://www.vgmuseum.com/pics2/zektor.html

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Clarification of Question by bunisan-ga on 02 Oct 2005 08:07 PDT

No, not Zektor either.

I believe that when you hit one of the geometric shapes it broke up
into a number of smaller geometric shapes.