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description | Xevious is one of the first vertical scrolling shoot-em-up arcade games. |
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__long_description | A hundred thousand years ago, an ancient civilization prospered on our Earth, their product being GAMP (General Artificial Matrix Producer). In order to survive the Ice Age, most of the Earth's inhabitants have decided to leave it, finally settling on a planet called Xevious. A group of humans remained, becoming our own ancestors. Many years have passed, and the Xevians are now planning a massive comeback to their long-lost homeland. The pilot Mu, his android companion Eve, and Mio, a Xevian who opposes the GAMP regime, are back from a space travel just in time to warn the Earth of the upcoming invasion. The prototype fighter craft Solvalou is going to be used as the main weapon against the Xevian attack.
Xevious is a vertically-scrolling shooter which is notable for being the first game of that type to feature an aircraft flying over the Earth (as opposed to the outer space in other games), displaying views of South American nature. It also introduced, for the first time, two types of enemies to fight: aerial and ground-based (the menacing SOL towers invoked by GAMP to aid their planes). The player-controlled ship, Solvalou, is equipped with two weapons, each assigned to a button: the Zapper for air enemies, and the Blaster, which drops bombs on ground targets with the aid of a lock-on. The aerial enemies are divided into sub-categories distinguished by their attack and behavior patterns. Certain enemy types are immune to Solvalou's weapons, and must be avoided. |
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developer | Namco Namco |
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game_name | Xevious Xevious |
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__long_description | >Many eons ago, an advanced technologically orientated civilisation was
>forced to evacuate the Earth prior to the Ice Age. Now, these Xevious
>people are returning to reclaim their heritage through conquest. From
>the controls of your Solvalu super spacecraft, you must defend the
>Earth from takeover by the Xevious Invaders! Flying a search and
>destroy mission, you will cruise over the scrolling landscape, bombing
>Xevious ground entrenchments and zapping the air targets that come
>into range. Easy. But now look out for flying mirrors - impossible to
>destroy; a collision will spell certain death! In the event of your
>surviving wave after wave of enemy onslaughts you will encounter the
>controlling force of the Xevious offensive; Andor Genesis Mother Ship!
>This is your goal. A direct hit to her central reactor will disable
>her, but do not be lulled into a false sense of secuirity. Xevious
>forces will soon re-appear to renew their attacks with increased
>determination!
***Xevious*** is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game that was
released by Namco in 1983 (but copyrighted as 1982). It runs on Namco
Galaga hardware, and was designed by Masanobu Endō (who later created
The Tower of Druaga). In North America, the game was manufactured and
distributed by Atari, Inc.. In Brazil, the arcade cabinet was printed
with the name of "COLUMBIA" for the game, while the software still
showed the original title of "Xevious".
***Gameplay***
The player must use an 8-way joystick, to pilot a combat aircraft
called a Solvalou, which is armed with a forward-firing Zapper for
aerial targets and a Blaster which fires an unlimited supply of
air-to-surface bombs for ground targets. The game, presumably set
in Peru, was notable for the varied terrain below, which included
forests, airstrips, enemy bases - and mysterious Nazca Lines-like
drawings on the ground.
There are various aerial enemy aircraft which fire relatively
slow-moving bullets at the player, as well as (presumably unpiloted)
fast-moving projectiles, and exploding black spheres. Ground enemies
are a combination of stationary bases and moving vehicles, most of
which also fire slow-moving bullets at the player. Giant floating
Andor Genesis motherships appear in certain areas; these must be
defeated by knocking out their cores, and are considered one of the
first level bosses to be incorporated into a video game.
The game scrolls through 16 areas, looping back to Area 7 after Area
16. The Solvalou continually advances over varying terrain, and the
boundaries between areas are marked only by dense forests being flown
over. If the player dies, play will normally resume from the start of
the area - but if the player has completed at least 70% of the current
area before dying, play will resume from the start of the next area
instead. As the Solvalou continuously flies forward, it is possible
to advance without defeating any enemies.
***Ports***
Xevious has been ported to multiple other formats, including the
Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, NEC PC Engine, and Nintendo Entertainment
System game consoles, as well as the MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64,
Amstrad CPC, Apple II and Atari ST home computers.
Source:[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xevious) |
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