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Battle Vader	shoot them up space	1982	image specs screenshots machines company oc_id source /media/museum/software/epoch_cv_battle-vader_box_1_s.jpg label value year of release 1982 label value companies Epoch label value type game label value media cartridge label value systems Epoch Cassette Vision label value number of players 1 player title subtitle text image /media/museum/software/epoch_cv_battle-vader_ss01.jpg title subtitle text image /media/museum/software/epoch_cv_battle-vader_ss02.jpg title subtitle text image box /media/museum/software/epoch_cv_battle-vader_box_1.jpg title subtitle text image box - back /media/museum/software/epoch_cv_battle-vader_box-rear-2.jpg title subtitle text image cartridge /media/museum/software/epoch_cv_battle-vader_cart_1.jpg title subtitle text image box inlay /media/museum/software/epoch_cv_battle-vader_inlay_1.jpg /museum/epoch-cassette-vision /companies/epoch 666 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20221003004821/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=666 2022-10-03

Battle Vader is of course a clone of the Space Invaders arcade hit from Taito, but adapted to the limited features of the Cassette Vision system. Thus only the front row of the invaders is visible, surely to limit de number of moving objects to display.

Your bunkers has to be shot three times before they are definately destroyed. Each time an invader hit one, it changes color according to the following cycle: red -> yellow -> blue. Only blue bunkers will be definately destroyed (anyone can confirm this?).

Of course there is still the mothership passing by sometimes at the top of the screen. Destroy hit for better score. At the end of the game this mothership will fly down the screen in zig zag as you must destroy hit before it reaches you.

The cartridge offer 4 different levels to play with.

This game was also marketed earlier as a stand alone system called TV Vader.