Espial - Videogame by Orca

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Espial

Name: Espial
Developer: Orca

Year: 1983
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: unique
Game Specific: Espial Pinout
Settings: Espial Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [FireBomb]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Espial PCB Image

Espial Description

A very good Xevious clone with some elements of Star Force thrown in as well. Catchy starting music. It was later ported to the Atari 800 home computer.

Espial was produced by Orca in 1983.

Orca released 14 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1981.

Other machines made by Orca during the time period Espial was produced include Sky Lancer, Zodiack, Net Wars, Bounty, Changes, Funky Bee, Looper, and Marine Boy.

Espial - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.26 (2 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.40

     Overall 'Like': 4.50
     Fun (Social): 3.50
     Fun (Solo): 4.50
     Collector Desire: 5.00

Technical Impressions Score: 4.13

     Gameplay: 4.50
     Graphics: 4.00
     Originality: 3.50
     Sound/Music: 4.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Miscellaneous

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Espial Census

There are 12,007 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,523 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 161,736 machines (6,804 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 28 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 13 of these machines are owned by our active Espial collectors. And of these, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 12 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Espial circuit board for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 11 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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