Espial has the player pilot a ship against waves of aerial and ground enemies in vertical scroll, borrowing design elements from Xevious -Namco's shooter that defined much of the genre- and mixing them with ideas from Star Force. Orca Corporation developed it in Japan and published it in the United States in September 1983 through Venture Line. It's a minor but technically solid early-80s shooter, fondly remembered by those tracing the line of influence among the great Japanese vertical shooters of that first generation.
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