Starblade - Videogame by Namco

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Starblade

Name: Starblade
Manufacturer: Namco
Year: 1991
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
25-inch with a concave mirror.

Conversion Class: unique

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

Gun: Positional with trigger

Sound: Special Sound System
Four-speaker stereo

Cabinet Styles:

Environmental/Cockpit

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Starblade Description

Starblade was produced by Namco in 1991.

Namco released 307 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Namco during the time period Starblade was produced include Cosmo Gang The Video, Final Lap 2, Steel Gunner 2, Golly! Ghost!, Solvalou, Cosmo Gang, Mach Storm, Boxy Boy, Galaxian 3, and Driver's Eyes.

A space shooter. There are two seperate missions; the first is to destroy the planet Red Eye and the second is to destroy the enemy fleet and their leader.

Starblade - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.07 (6 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.56

     Overall 'Like': 4.60
     Fun (Social): 3.75
     Fun (Solo): 4.60
     Collector Desire: 5.00

Technical Impressions Score: 4.17

     Gameplay: 4.80
     Graphics: 4.33
     Originality: 4.80
     Sound/Music: 4.60

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 Information

A sit-down cockpit game where the seat vibrates when you are hit by an enemy missle. The game weighs 896 pounds when shipped.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Environmental/Cockpit

Game Introduction

A 3-D version of a Star Wars-type game.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Starblade Census

There are 12,105 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,513 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 159,303 machines (6,680 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 21 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 7 of these machines are owned by our active Starblade collectors. And of these, 5 are original dedicated machines, and 2 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There are 3 active VAPS members currently looking for Starblade.

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

This game ranks a 7 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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

Manuals

Starblade Operators Manual 32 Pages, 6.6 MB File.

Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Starblade Flyer #2061
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Starblade Flyer #2848
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Starblade Flyer #4760

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