by sirVH
Xevious — Namco’s 1982 classic that defined the vertical shooter — takes off again, now running natively on Sega 16-bit hardware. Strap into the Solvalou and sweep across the alien world of Xevious: gun down airborne threats with your Zapper, drop the Blaster on ground targets, and uncover the secrets hidden beneath the landscape.
This isn’t a remake — it’s the real arcade game, transcoded line-by-line from the original coin-op code. The gameplay, the enemy patterns and that famously serene-yet-tense atmosphere are all faithful to the original, beating away on your Genesis / Mega Drive.
Features
- Faithful arcade gameplay — the original logic, enemy AI and pseudo-random terrain
- Dual weapons: the air-to-air Zapper and the air-to-ground Blaster
- All the icons — Toroids, the spinning Bacura, the Sol citadels buried underground, and the mighty Andor Genesis fortress
- 4-channel PCM music and sound effects
- 1 or 2 players, hi-score table, and high scores saved to battery backup
- Runs on real hardware and every major emulator (BlastEm, Genesis Plus GX, Kega Fusion, PicoDrive)
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