Xevious is a vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades in 1982.
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10 Facts About Xevious
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Xevious was praised for its detailed graphics, challenge, and originality.
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Xevious was designed by Masanobu Endo, who joined Namco in April 1981 as a planner.
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Location testing for Xevious was conducted in December 1982, and the game was released in Japan in January 1983.
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Home versions of Xevious received praise for their faithfulness to the original.
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Retrospectively, Xevious has been seen as the "father" of vertical-scrolling shooters and one of the most influential and important games of the genre.
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Xevious is credited as one of the first video games to have a boss fight, pre-rendered graphics and a storyline.
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Super Xevious, was released in 1984 - the difficulty was increased to appeal to more advanced players, alongside new enemy types and characters that will reset the player's score when shot.
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In 1991, a three-part Xevious novel was published, titled Fardraut - the books documented the lore of the Xevious video game series, including its characters, backstory and events.
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