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Spectar
Spectar is an arcade game released by Exidy as a sequel to "Targ". The game depicts vehicular combat in a future world. The original game (ROM revision 1) was released in November 1980 and ROM revision 3 in April 1981. ROM revision 2 was for internal use only at Exidy and never installed into any video game cabinet.
Gameplay.
"Spectar" is similar to "Targ", but with enhancements. Whereas "Targ" took place on a completely regular 9x9 grid, "
called: Panzer and Phantoms (released by Proel); and Phantomas and Rallys (released by Jeutel and Novar respectively).
In 2008, H.R. Kaufmann, president of Xidy, released the original ROM images (ROM revisions 1 and 3) for Spectar into the public domain for non-commercial use without payment. Thus Spectar can be now be played for free using an emulator such as MAME.
External links.
- "ColecoVision "Spectar" Homebrew Released!"