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Gameplay

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to move a small white crosshair around the top of a "tube" or wall while firing down at the computer-controlled opponents attempting to scale their way up it. The opponents, known as the Tubeway Army (one of several references to Gary Numan in the game), consist of triangular green ''homers'' (100 points) and triangular blue ''seekers'' (200 points), both of which can return fire. A special opponent called ''the germ'' occasionally emerges from a white box in the lower left corner of the screen. The goal of the game is to clear as many levels as possible before running out of lives. An extra life is granted every 20,000 points.


Reception

In an 8 out of 10 review, the January 1983 ''Arcade Express'' newsletter mentioned the similarity to ''Tempest'', but called it "just different enough to stand as an independent program within the same gaming genre." In 1984, '' Softline'' readers named ''Tubeway'' the sixth-worst Apple program of 1983.


See also

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Axis Assassin ''Axis Assassin'' is a video game written by John Field for the Apple II and published by Electronic Arts in 1983. Ports for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64 were released alongside the Apple II original. The game is similar in concept and ...
'', another ''Tempest''-inspired game for the Apple II


References

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