Tempest (video Game) - Tempest in Popular Culture

Tempest in Popular Culture

  • Tempest is featured as the video game that Reggie (Catherine Mary Stewart) plays in the 1984 film Night of the Comet, and the game serves to introduce a standing thread throughout the movie. While at the movie theater that saves her from exposure to the comet, she becomes obsessed with knocking someone with the initials "DMK" off the high score list. Additionally, the identity of "DMK" is revealed at the film's conclusion when another survivor suddenly appears with the custom license plate of "DMK".
  • Tempest is featured prominently in the Rush music video for their 1982 song "Subdivisions".
  • Parzival encounters a version of Tempest in the first challenge though the crystal gate in Ernest Cline's book Ready Player One
  • A Tempest game screen is briefly seen in the Futurama episode, "Reincarnation."

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