![]() 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. 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).
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