4000 some years later. Clones 1980s home computer clones include Web War for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro published by Artic Computing in 1985, Tubeway (1982) for the Apple II, Storm (1984) for the Tandy Color Computer, and Livewire!, an Atari 8-bit family type-in game printed in ANALOG Computing in 1983. The Tempest-inspired Axis Assassin (1983) was one of the first five releases from Electronic Arts. Arashi is a 1992 freeware clone for the Apple Macintosh running classic Mac OS. Whirlwind (1994) is a commercial game that Computer Gaming World described as "a clone of Tempest". In popular culture Tempest is part of a plot thread in the 1984 film Night of the Comet. Tempest is featured prominently in the music video for Rush's 1982 song "Subdivisions". Parzival must beat Anorak's high score of 728,329 on Tempest (1980 cabinet) in the first part of the final challenge inside the Crystal Gate in the book Ready Player One. In the pilot episode of the television series Numbers, Larry Fleinhardt plays Tempest while advising someone on a mathematical problem. Larry is later seen playing the game in the season four episode "End Game". Tempest is one of the video games in the TV comedy Silver Spoons. Tempest is seen in "Twilight Zone: The Movie" played by Jeremy Licht as Anthony in the Segment 3 remake of the original Episode "It's A Good Life" and later, the game's sounds can be heard when Anthony's powers fully manifest. Tempest is referenced by, and is believed to be a partially inspiration for the urban legend Polybius. See also Golden age of video arcade games History of video games References External links Tempest at the Arcade History database Tempest Code Project to reconstruct and document an assembly source code version of the game 1981 video games Arcade video games Amstrad CPC games Atari arcade games Atari ST games BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games Cancelled Atari 2600 games Cancelled Atari 5200 games Fixed shooters Superior Software games Third-person shooters Vector arcade video games Video games developed in the United States Xbox 360 Live Arcade games ZX Spectrum games Commercial video games with freely available source code Vertically-oriented video games Multiplayer and single-player video games