{{Short description|1989 video game}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Refimprove|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox video game |title = Cyber Police ESWAT |image = ESWATCyberPolice arcadeflyer.png |caption = Japanese arcade flyer |developer = Sega R&D1 |publisher = Sega<br />'''Home computers'''<br />U.S. Gold |designer = Nandemo, Macco<br>Chan, Seishi<br>Atsumiya, Mikarin |composer = Yasuhiro Kawakami |platforms = Arcade, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum |release = '''Arcade'''{{vgrelease|JP|May 28, 1989<ref>{{cite web |title=ESWAT (Registration Number PA0000428171) |url=https://cocatalog.loc.gov |website=United States Copyright Office |access-date=26 September 2021}}</ref>|NA|September 1989<ref>{{cite book |last1=Akagi |first1=Masumi |title=アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971–2005) |trans-title=Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005) |date=13 October 2006 |publisher=Amusement News Agency |language=ja |location=Japan |isbn=978-4990251215 |page=131 |url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n132}}</ref>}} '''Home computers'''{{vgrelease|EU|November 1990<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!-- not stated --> |date=October 1990 |title=Preview: E-SWAT |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/4/4e/CVG_UK_107.pdf |magazine=Computer and Video Games |publisher=EMAP |issue=107 |page=125}}</ref>}} |genre = Run and gun |modes = Single-player, multiplayer |arcade system = System 16 }}
{{nihongo|'''''Cyber Police ESWAT'''''|サイバーポリス イースワット}} is a 1989 run and gun video game developed and published by Sega for arcades. The player controls Duke Oda, a member of the Liberty City Cyber Police Force tasked with finding and arresting the city's most wanted criminals, and eventually dismantling a terrorist organization planning world domination. In 1990, Sega released a separate version for the Sega Genesis and Master System, known in North America as ''ESWAT: City Under Siege''.
==Gameplay== thumb|left|In the arcade game's first stage, players start out as a regular police officer.
The gameplay is similar to Sega's own ''Shinobi'' (1987),<ref name="VT">{{cite magazine |title=Pedal To The Metal: Sega Set To Speed, Swing, Sidekick Into The 1990s With New Fall Line |magazine=Vending Times |date=August 1989 |volume=29 |issue=10 |pages=52–5 |url=https://archive.org/details/VendingTimesVOL29NO10August1989Clearscan/page/n47}}</ref> as the player has the ability to jump up and down between planes where possible. The goal of each of the game's 15 stages is to find and arrest a specific wanted criminal, who is usually fought at the end of the stage as a boss. Duke is initially armed with only a single-shot pistol, but upon arresting the first three criminals and being promoted to ESWAT, Duke is equipped with a Power Suit with a mounted machine gun for the rest of the game. The suit also has access to limited-use special weapons which can be found within stages. However, both of Duke's standard weapons require ammunition, without which the player can only attack with a kick. Additional ammunition can be found in boxes throughout each stage.
==Hardware/conversion== The game was issued on Sega's System 16-B which is built around the M68000 and uses a Z80 and a YM2151 for amplified mono sound generation. The System 16 pinout is not JAMMA compatible but JAMMA adaptors are available and fairly common. The game was released in a dedicated two player cabinet and also as a kit that contained the System 16 to JAMMA adaptor. Each player requires one start button, one joystick, and three action buttons (shoot, jump, special weapons). This game utilizes a standard resolution arcade monitor.
==Reception== ''Computer and Video Games'' called the game a cross between ''NARC'' and ''RoboCop'', but wrote that it "doesn't quite have the flair of either". Rating the game at 76% overall, they recommended only playing ''Cyber Police'' if they were bored with the two other games.<ref name=CVG>"Cyber Police". ''Computer and Video Games''. November 1989. p. 97.</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{KLOV game|7685}} * {{moby game|id=/eswat-cyber-police|name=''E-SWAT: Cyber Police''}}
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