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We could make up some kind of [[Backstory]] for this... but we won't<ref>Okay, there sort of is one: Programmer Dave Thereur came up with the idea after having a nightmare about monsters crawling out of a hole</ref>. It's a [[Shoot'Em Up]], and fun enough that it doesn't need any excuse. Besides, we're [[Atari]], and this is [[The Golden Age of Video Games]]; we know you're going to keep feeding quarters into anything with our logo on it, story or no. Go nuts, guys! This video game was released in 1980.
 
Not to be confused with [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest]],'' which is a Third Person "Romance" about [[Forbidden Planet|a long-lost genius, his beautiful daughter, and the fell things that are discovered in their seeming paradise when a foreign ship crashes there...]] Nor should it be confused with the [[Tempest (musicband)|Celtic-Rock band]] of the same name.
 
For the [[Urban Legend]] version, see [[Polybius]].
 
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