Espial 1-19-84


     

 

This is an interesting prototype for Espial which was most likely made for magazine reviewers.  While the game itself is the same as the final version, it still has some debug features enabled.  The left difficulty switch acts like a pause button (A pauses, B unpauses) while the right difficulty switch is used to turn the collision detection off and on.  Both of features would have been handy for reviewers who wanted to see all the levels and pause the game for a screenshot. 

If you look closely at the labels you can see that the word TI is crossed out and VCS is written in.  Either the EPROMs were reused from the TI version of the game or the were accidentally labeled as such. 

 

Aim for the exhaust port!

 

The backgrounds are nice

 

Where have I seen this before?

 

He's right behind me, isn't he?

 

 

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