Space Invasion - Videogame by Capcom

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Space Invasion

Name: Space Invasion
Developer: Capcom

Year: 1985
Type: Videogame

Class: Bootleg
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Capcom Classic
Game Specific: Space Invasion Pinout

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

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [Standard GunGrenades]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

Photo contributed by: Wouter Bovelander

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Space Invasion Control Panel Image

Space Invasion Description

Joe the soldier has to stop the Alien Invasion and to rescue captives. Your weapons are a machine gun with unlimited shots and a limited supply of hand grenades that may be replenished by stealing from the enemy.

Space Invasion was produced by Capcom in 1985.

Capcom released 228 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Capcom during the time period Space Invasion was produced include Commando, 1942 (PlayChoice), Exed Exes, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Gun Smoke, 1942, HiGeMaru - Pirate Ship, Son Son, Vulgus, and Pirate Ship HigeMaru.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Miscellaneous

This is a European clone of Capcom's Commando. Some enemy soldier sprites were exchanged by white robots to make this game less realistic and violent.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Space Invasion Census

There are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are approximately 13 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 6 of these machines are owned by our active Space Invasion collectors. And of these, 6 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 Space Invasion 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 2 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]

Trivia

The Commodore C-64 port of Commando in Europe was also called Space Invasion.

Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings 3 Pages, 360 kB File.

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