14 Facts About Solvalou

Solvalou is a 1991 first-person rail shooter arcade game developed and published in Japan by Namco.

The Solvalou has two weapon types: an air zapper to destroy air-based enemies, and a blaster bomb to destroy ground-stationed enemies.

Solvalou was advertised as a "hyper-entertainment machine" for its sit-down cabinet design and 3D shooting gameplay.

Solvalou is a third-person shooter video game set in the Xevious universe.

The Solvalou is restricted to a pre-determined flight path, though players can move it around to avoid projectiles and obstacles that approach it.

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In each of these, the Solvalou must make it to the end while destroying moving formations of enemies.

The Solvalou has two weapons at its disposal: an "air zapper" that is used for destroying aerial enemies, and a "blaster bomb" that is used for destroying ground-stationed enemies.

Solvalou was released for arcades by Namco in Japan in December 1991.

Music and sound effects in Solvalou were composed by Hiroyuki Kawada, a Namco veteran that worked primarily on established franchises such as Galaxian and Valkyrie.

Solvalou produced hand-made sound effects with Turbosynth, a modular sequencer program, and created custom sound driver functions that could produce techno-inspired beats.

Solvalou was well-received at launch for its gameplay and hardware capabilities, though it has been perceived as a commercial failure despite Game Machine claiming it was the third most-popular arcade game of February 1992 in Japan.

Multiple critics believed Solvalou was an improvement over Namco's other 3D arcade releases, such as Starblade.

Retro Gamers Stuart Campbell in 2006 believed Solvalou was a faithful update to Xevious, and his disappointment at the lack of re-releases and proper emulation for the game led him to label it as "one of the great "lost" coin-ops".

Solvalou was fond of its graphics for combining 3D flat-textured polygons with pre-rendered sprites.