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by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 01/12/2016, 3:04am PST

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

Tempest is the finest name of any video game ever. If you are alive and reading this, you know that it is true. So it was just a matter of time before some shitlords thought, "Huh, that's pretty good! Don't mind if I do!"

I've seen the original Tempest you are talking about, and I've played it. While it's a good game, it's not "the Great American Novel" of video games. I'm sure there are others that exceed it in fun, playability and entertainment value. But let me say this: if it was such a huge game, why is it no longer around, and why are there no clones of it? There must be a dozen clones of Tetris and probably a few of Dig Dug and some others. Even Centipede had at least one PC clone version; I played it. Yet I have not noticed a remake or PC version of Tempest.

Uh, Jonsey, by the way, the name "Tempest" has been used many times before, including a play called The Tempest written about 500 years ago by an unknown hack named William Shakespeare. My favorite poem from the story:

Our revels now are ended
These our actors, as I foretold you
Are all melted into air, into thin air
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision
The cloud capped towers
The gorgeous palaces
The solemn towers
Yea, the Great Globe itself
Shall dissolve
And like this insubstantial pageant faded
Leave not a rack behind!

Also, for the legal part of it, the name of a product is called a "trademark" and you only have an exclusive on that as long as you are using it. If you abandon the product and stop selling it, your ownership of the name ceases and someone else can come along and use it for something else. Also, more than once I've seen competing software products, sometimes for the exact same function, have identical names. There was a really good terminal program, a network operations analytic software package, and a telephone butt set, all named "Telemate."

Someone finally did it and tried to reuse the name "Tempest." by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/15/2015, 2:35pm PST NEW

They should switch the name to Heavy Rain NT by Eurotrash 12/15/2015, 9:56pm PST NEW

Thanks for pointing this out to me! BOUGHT! NT by pinback 01/04/2016, 8:43am PST NEW

Re: Someone finally did it and tried to reuse the name "Tempest." by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 01/12/2016, 3:04am PST NEW

I will be very disappointed if the Telemate telephone butt set isn't something by I can stick my dick in. 01/12/2016, 5:00am PST NEW

Re: Someone finally did it and tried to reuse the name "Tempest." by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/12/2016, 8:41am PST NEW

Maybe not that good, but if you like it, great by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 01/22/2016, 11:13pm PST NEW

Sounds like a Tempest in a teapot! by dr. no 01/12/2016, 9:05pm PST NEW