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Espial Espial - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Espial - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

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 15 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1981. Orca was based in United States.

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

Specs

Name Espial
Developer Orca (United States)
Year 1983
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 7719
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
Game Specific Espial Pinout
Dipswitch Settings

Espial Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 - FireBomb
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
PCB Espial PCB Image

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

Fun Factor: 4.40

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

Technical Rating: 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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Images

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Espial Census

There are 15,237 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,659 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,871 machines (6,992 unique titles).

Common - There are 28 known instances of this machine owned by Espial collectors who are active members. Of these, One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 27 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Espial circuit boards for sale.

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

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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