Vector Blaster released for iPhone

Retro gamers can never have too many classic shooter clones, and this latest offering from developer Rude Scotsman Vector Blaster looks like a line-drawn beauty destined to strum our nostalgic pangs.

Previously an underground hit on the PocketPC, this clone of Atari's immortal vector-drawn shoot-'em-up Tempest appears to add a slight twist to the mechanic by rotating the 'tube' shaped environments around the ship, rather than the ship circumnavigating the perimeter as it did in the old coin-op.

Otherwise, Vector Blaster looks like a spot-on interpretation of Tempest, featuring a beautiful range of pseudo-vector-drawn levels as your ship flies 'into' the screen, sending streams of electrical charges along the lines to dispatch the geometric enemies.

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