Spectar

Description

Steer your battleship around a geometric grid to avoid collisions with enemy ships and fire upon these ships for points. Run over the twirling stars for more points. A level is complete when either all the enemy ships have been destroyed or all the stars have been collected.

Spectar was produced by Exidy in 1980.

Exidy released 57 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1974. Exidy was based in United States.

Other machines made by Exidy during the time period Spectar was produced include: Kreepy Krawlers, Fire One!, Rip Cord, Side Trak, Crash, Star Fire, Bandido, Targ, Tail Gunner II, and Mouse Trap

Specs

Name	Spectar
Developer	Exidy (United States)
Year	1980
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9702
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color 19-inch Electrohome G07
Conversion Class	Exidy Targ
Game Specific	Spectar Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Spectar Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Buttons: 1 - Fire Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard Cabaret/Mini
Bezel	Spectar Bezel Image
Control Panel	Spectar Control Panel Image

Game Introduction

In the city of the SPECTARS, the HEROIC WUMMEL continues the crusade against evil and injustice.

Spectar KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.65 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 3.80

Overall Like	5.00
Fun (Social)	3.00
Fun (Solo)	5.00
Collector Desire	1.00

Technical Rating: 3.50

Gameplay	5.00
Graphics	1.00
Originality	3.00
Sound/Music	5.00

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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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Spectar Census

There are 15,211 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,644 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,563 machines (6,981 unique titles).

Common - There are 28 known instances of this machine owned by Spectar collectors who are active members. Of these, 15 of them are original dedicated machines. 3 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 10 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Spectar.

This game ranks a 6 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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

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