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[Ze_ro]

Important Note: This weeks competition is over and no further scores will be accepted.

You are a space attack pilot flying at death range over the gigantic star ship. Your mission while defending yourself against the never ending oncoming defense squadrons is to destroy the star ship with your cursor scope missiles. Watch out for the star ship's atomic cannons aimed at you!

Game Information

Game Name: Espial Released By: Tigervision, 1983 Left Difficulty: N/A Right Difficulty: N/A Game Mode: Default Chosen By: Vectorman0 Post your scores right here in this thread, and I will add them to the list. Remember to play the game with the recommended game mode and difficulty settings as shown above so that your scores will be consistent with everyone elses. The deadline for posting scores is Wednesday December 9th at 1:00 AM (CST).

Current High Scores 24,500 (darthkur) [+11] 24,450 (toymailman) [+10] 18,610 (CebusCapucinis) [+9] 18,420 (Zoyx) [+8] 17,850 (roadrunner) [+7] 17,590 (Carey85) [+6] 15,320 (Hornpipe2) [+5] 8590 (aftermac) [+4] 8220 (Tr3vor) [+3] 7820 (4Ks) [+2] 1860 (Wickeycolumbus) [+1] Best Tips None! Challenges None yet TwinGalaxies Top 3 (Game 1, Difficulty B) No scores listed!

Current Standings Coming Soon!

Scoring Points in Espial

Flying objects - 20 to 80 points Fortress, cannon, cells - 200 points Diamond - 90 points

Hints and Tips

The Manual

As always, you really should read the manual. In case you don't have a copy of it, AtariAge has a typed copy available online. Unfortunately, the manual doesn't provide any specific hints.

--Zero

[aftermac]

8,590

[roadrunner]

10,620

[toymailman]

16,730

[Hornpipe2]

10,370

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[Wickeycolumbus]

1,860

[4Ks]

1870
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7820

Edited by 4Ks, Sun Dec 6, 2009 8:48 PM.

[Zoyx]

10550 - I'm in. Flicker-fest

[Tr3vor]

i has a score (for the first time )

8,220. not the best but not too bad, until someone starts racking up some major scores

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[shadow460]

I'm out. I don't have this one on the shelf.

[Carey85]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they should've just named this game "Developer Hates You." My hat's off to anyone who can make it past stage 5...

[toymailman]

Carey85, on Sun Dec 6, 2009 3:54 AM, said:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they should've just named this game "Developer Hates You." My hat's off to anyone who can make it past stage 5...

I'll take that hat.

24,450

[Cebus Capucinis]

God bless you, Harmony cartridge, God bless you. Now I can participate in every week of HSC!

18610


I'll take that hat too.

EDIT: Shadow NOOOOOO! I love getting into point duels with you. Dang!

Edited by CebusCapucinis, Sun Dec 6, 2009 6:15 PM.

[Carey85]

I'll give it another shot later. I got my score at 4:30 this morning after drinking for several hours. I think I was in the proverbial "zone" when I was playing, though, so I probably won't do much better...

[Zoyx]

Trying to understand why so much flicker. Just as much going on here as in River Raid. I guess they didn't know the tricks. Looked like they tried to do a Zaxxon without the 3D. Nice idea, but lousy follow-through.

[darthkur]

24,500

The hat is mine! Ha ha ho ho.

[Carey85]

This game sucks.

17590

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[Hornpipe2]

Edging out a couple of you guys here with
15320

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[roadrunner]

My new high score 17,850

[Zoyx]

18420 - Nope, no clue how to get past that really fast wave. The only idea I have is to get lucky in killing a guy, then hide in that row. Rinse/repeat.