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• XEVIOUS NES RELEASE DATE SOFTWARE

Xevious tells the story of the fight between humankind and the biocomputer GAMP, which controls the alien forces of planet Xevious. As the Solvalou continuously flies forward, it is possible to advance without defeating any enemies. 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. The Solvalou continually advances over varying terrain, and the boundaries between areas are marked only by dense forests being flown over. The game scrolls through 16 areas, looping back to Area 7 after Area 16.

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. Ground enemies are a combination of stationary bases and moving vehicles, most of which also fire slow-moving bullets at the player. 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. 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. 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.

XEVIOUS NES RELEASE DATE SOFTWARE

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'. In North America, the game was manufactured and distributed by Atari, Inc. It runs on Namco Galaga hardware, and was designed by Masanobu Endō (who later created The Tower of Druaga). Xevious is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1983 (but copyrighted as 1982). This game can be played also in a versions for Ata­ri 2600 and Ata­ri 7800. The following emulators are a­vai­lab­le for this game: NeptunJS (Ja­va­Script), Nesbox (Flash), Ret­ro­Games (JS) and vNES (Java).