Warriorisabouttodie

I recall Tempest in 1980s videogames arcades pretty well. Beautiful vector graphics and a fly-wheel controller. It was a really good and innovative game. Had the fly-wheel approach been done before? I don't think so. The game involved a crab-like abstract vector player-entity circling around sequential pseudo-3D pits of various shapes that enemy creatures were attempting to crawl out of.

Anyhow I became aware of a remarkable modern retro Atari 8bit version of Tempest, a remarkable modern retro Atari 8bit version of Tempest. I looked at some videos of it on the dominant video-sharing website, as well I looked at "Tempest 2000" videos for the Atari jaguar JaGuAr JAGUAR, but I realized the 8bit version seems to be better. The Jaguar thing has graphic and aural advantages and does a lot of neat flourishments, some of them mindbending and novel. But it's different from the original Tempest. The 8bit version is much more faithful.

So I'd like to purchase Tempest Xtreem, but my reservation about it is that it doesn't have the fly-wheel controller possibility. The controller was integral to that original Tempest gameplay. Now how does one get there from here? I say the Atari 2600/Sears VCS 360-degrees steering controllers that were released with Indy 500/Race would be a way to get there. Yeah, these are oddball controllers from 30 to 40 years ago, and they're not fly-wheel, which means spin a bit after you let them go, but they do go 360 degrees.

QUESTION: who agrees and thinks there might be some way to get a Tempest Xtreem upgrade that includes support for these steering controllers?