Xevious is a vertical scrolling shoot em up arcade game released by namco in december 1982.
Xevious arcade machine.
Census data currently includes 149 985 machines 6 468 unique titles.
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In north america it was published by atari inc.
Vaps arcade coin op xevious 3dg census there are 11 199 members of the video arcade preservation society vintage arcade preservation society 8 944 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned wanted or for sale.
Atari released 139 different machines in our database under this trade name starting in 1972.
Xevious is a 1983 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by namco.
It runs on namco galaga hardware and was designed by masanobu endō.
This is the first overhead flying shoot em up game.
Other machines made by atari during the time period xevious was produced include gravitar space duel dig dug quantum black widow pipeline tempest maze invaders tempest tubes and triangle.
Controlling the solvalou starship the player is tasked with wiping out the xevious forces before they destroy all of mankind.
It was also published by nintendo atari bandai u s.
In the united states the game was manufactured and distributed by atari inc.
It has a very nice unique cabinet.
It runs on namco galaga hardware and is one of the earliest vertical scrolling shooters video games.