In 1983 I played a single game of Xevious in the arcade for several hours. I forget how many times I wrapped the game around from the final boss back to the start. But later passes through the game got really challenging because of increased enemies. After I got my high score put up on the arcade records board, the owner changed the settings on the Xevious machine so that the enemies were far more numerous and deadly. My record stayed posted for as long as the arcade stayed in business.
@@mikewhite1687 They honestly cost less than an average AAA game, for the amount of fun they provide. A quarter gives you ~3 lives, a dollar will give you ~12 lives. An NES game back in the day costs around $60 ($160+ inflated), that's 720 lives right there. Not to mention, when you get good at it, you almost always get extra lives, that's 1000+ tries you can. Now take a modern game, how many games do you play or have played where you have died 1000+ times?
@@mikewhite1687 The idea that arcade games were quarter munchers is a myth. Look at the developer interview of Final Fight. He openly said, "In Japan the goal is to clear the entire arcade game in 1 credit, without putting in any more quarters, and I was surprised to see that western players cares more about novelty than skill, western players don't care about losing the game, if they can see the enemy perform the piledriver on them.
I never got past the first boss ship as a kid either. I grew up thinking the game just looped after it because I never got past it like most games of the era. It wasn't until after I grew up that I found out there was much, much more... mind was completely blown.
Listen cubby boy… you get in that COCKPIT and you keep FIRING!!! Don’t chicken out… be an American and keep firing til complete VICTORY!!! USA!!! USA!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This is what I did at Uni instead of working on my degree... I eventually got good enough to cycle it from beginning to end - an epic endeavour fuelled by beer and sandwiches provided by my support team... happy days...
@jasonsudeikis26All of the arcade games, even Namco games that don't get recognized today, the one you shout out is "obscure unknown shmup" xevious? I don't think you guys realize how big of a deal this game was and is...
I remember playing this for the first time when I unlocked it as a bonus in Star Fox Assault. I never made it past the first boss but I loved it. I'm glad to see they added the NES version to Nintendo Switch Online!!!
Me encantaba este juego, aún hoy el sonido me transporta a mis años de niño. Faltaba a la escuela (me hacía la rata) para ir a jugar. Llegó un momento que jugaba tanto que lo daba vuelta y volvía a iniciarse el juego desde cero. Siempre que paso por alguna casa de juegos vintage, entro con la esperanza de encontrarlo y volver a jugar después de tantos años. Forma parte de mis mejores recuerdos de niño. Gracias por subirlo.-
Dayum. As a kid I thort I just sukked hard at this game..now in newly 2024 at age 49 I see how hard this game is and that this player is just a complete genius. That's nuts. Haha. Cheers from Down Under🦘🐬🐨🐨 🇦🇺🤘 happy new near gamers!
This was in the corner store next to the pizza place I delivered for in 1985. I made $3.65/hour + tips. The tips paid for my cigarettes and video games. The worst times were when I was doing really well and the boss would yell over that a pizza was ready to go out. Sometimes there was a kid I could let finish my game. Good times.
Now this is/was a clinic on how to play this game! This was my favourite arcade game growing up when I was just a wet behind the ears little snot nosed punk. Dumped so many quarters into this game back then. It was hard. Really hard. But so much fun to play. I was able to consistently get to about the 6:30ish range shown in the video but that was about it, wasn't ever able to go beyond that. Great game, great memories!
Ahhh, thanx man, been trying to remember this game for years. The only thing I could remember was the little ufos sounding like glass shattering when you hit them. Loved this game at the arcades.
I was also searching for this game for years, all I remembered was a gray fighter jet flying over a field blowing up gray targets, and a catchy soundtrack
So I had this on that 5 game blue plug'n'play we all had, and I could consistently get to the first big boss ship when I was about 6-7, but it for some reason scared me so much that I would turn off the game, and to this day, I have never gotten that far again.
"When I joined Namco there was only one bank of computer workstations in the computer room, allowing up to five people to work simultaneously. Then four new people joined, so if someone senior was using one of the five stations, we had to wait at the back of the room for them to finish. So using this set-up we would develop five games in parallel. Back then, sometimes games were cancelled or turned into something completely different mid-development, and Xevious was the most famous example at the time. Originally with Xevious they were going to use a very realistic looking fighter plane, like the F-4. The game was supposed to be a realistic flight game, involving cutting edge fighters and the most advanced weapons. This was before I joined the company, so this is something I heard from somebody else. One day, the planner for the game suddenly resigned from the company and took off to travel to Africa. At that time Masanobu Endou was the programmer, and he wanted to make the game into something set in a sci-fi world - which is what you now see in Xevious. So he changed the whole thing, and that's Xevious as we now know it." -- Professor Yoshihiro Kishimoto (game designer and programmer, Namco)
A Good Classic Namco Arcade and was Introduced to it on Star Fox Assault as its Bonus game! Its the Closest thing as the First Thunder Force in the Arcade!
Esse jogo foi com certeza o melhor jogo de nave de todos os tempos imortal hoje tenho 52 anos e jogo até hoje e o cara que criou esse jogo é um gênio ❤
for anyone wondering if this game has an ending, the answer is no. How this game works is that it has what you can call levels, that have preset terrain and enemies. Once you get through all the levels and destroy the big boss ship you've beaten all the levels so what the game will do is randomly start cycling through all the levels and reuse the boss every certain number of levels until you run out of lives.
I have one good thing to say about this game: If it weren't for this game, we wouldn't have Grobda, and Grobda is probably one of my favorite arcade games of all time Other than that though, it's WAY too hard
words can't describe how much I hate this game's music. It is the worst music that has ever been written for a video game. it makes me angry every time I play it that the game was released with these noises packed in. It came out the same year as Zaxxon which has the best sound design of the year. there is no excuse for how awful this music is. I am way too invested in how crap the music is.
In 1983 I played a single game of Xevious in the arcade for several hours. I forget how many times I wrapped the game around from the final boss back to the start. But later passes through the game got really challenging because of increased enemies. After I got my high score put up on the arcade records board, the owner changed the settings on the Xevious machine so that the enemies were far more numerous and deadly. My record stayed posted for as long as the arcade stayed in business.
I wonder how much money you spent on these games. I heard that it required a lot of investment.
@@mikewhite1687 They honestly cost less than an average AAA game, for the amount of fun they provide. A quarter gives you ~3 lives, a dollar will give you ~12 lives. An NES game back in the day costs around $60 ($160+ inflated), that's 720 lives right there. Not to mention, when you get good at it, you almost always get extra lives, that's 1000+ tries you can. Now take a modern game, how many games do you play or have played where you have died 1000+ times?
@@mikewhite1687 The idea that arcade games were quarter munchers is a myth. Look at the developer interview of Final Fight. He openly said, "In Japan the goal is to clear the entire arcade game in 1 credit, without putting in any more quarters, and I was surprised to see that western players cares more about novelty than skill, western players don't care about losing the game, if they can see the enemy perform the piledriver on them.
I loved this game as a kid, but it's hard, I don't think I ever made it much further than the first big boss ship.
I never got past the first boss ship as a kid either. I grew up thinking the game just looped after it because I never got past it like most games of the era. It wasn't until after I grew up that I found out there was much, much more... mind was completely blown.
This game was hard compared to twin bee, 1942, or B-Wings 😂😂😂.
Listen cubby boy… you get in that COCKPIT and you keep FIRING!!! Don’t chicken out… be an American and keep firing til complete VICTORY!!! USA!!! USA!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
when i reached the big ship, i end up losing all lives
I ever win it with last stage yeahhh 😁
I remembered playing this game back in the 80's as a kid.
Me and my brother played this on plugnplay back in the mid 2000s
This is what I did at Uni instead of working on my degree... I eventually got good enough to cycle it from beginning to end - an epic endeavour fuelled by beer and sandwiches provided by my support team... happy days...
One of the most underrated arcade games of all time.
one of the most important for sure.
I think Xevious was far more popular in Japan than it was in the US, where it was a moderate success.
@jasonsudeikis26All of the arcade games, even Namco games that don't get recognized today, the one you shout out is "obscure unknown shmup" xevious? I don't think you guys realize how big of a deal this game was and is...
@@kitterbug lol it is underrated on the anglophone internet. so many people crap on it
Wtf this game is not underated !!!!!
Amazing soundtrack!
I remember playing this for the first time when I unlocked it as a bonus in Star Fox Assault. I never made it past the first boss but I loved it. I'm glad to see they added the NES version to Nintendo Switch Online!!!
Me encantaba este juego, aún hoy el sonido me transporta a mis años de niño. Faltaba a la escuela (me hacía la rata) para ir a jugar. Llegó un momento que jugaba tanto que lo daba vuelta y volvía a iniciarse el juego desde cero. Siempre que paso por alguna casa de juegos vintage, entro con la esperanza de encontrarlo y volver a jugar después de tantos años. Forma parte de mis mejores recuerdos de niño. Gracias por subirlo.-
Tambiem
I would've thought an arcade longplay of this game would've been done by now by you guys. I have this one the Namco plug and play system.
Still loving the sound design.
Dayum. As a kid I thort I just sukked hard at this game..now in newly 2024 at age 49 I see how hard this game is and that this player is just a complete genius. That's nuts. Haha.
Cheers from Down Under🦘🐬🐨🐨 🇦🇺🤘 happy new near gamers!
Love it. I remember playing this sensational game between 1983 - 1985 in the arcades. Way back when I was a kid.
19:51 How did it go from 9 solvalou to 1 without any change to the score like that?
Yeah, it's like it's edited. 🧐
This was in the corner store next to the pizza place I delivered for in 1985. I made $3.65/hour + tips. The tips paid for my cigarettes and video games. The worst times were when I was doing really well and the boss would yell over that a pizza was ready to go out. Sometimes there was a kid I could let finish my game. Good times.
Now this is/was a clinic on how to play this game!
This was my favourite arcade game growing up when I was just a wet behind the ears little snot nosed punk. Dumped so many quarters into this game back then. It was hard. Really hard. But so much fun to play. I was able to consistently get to about the 6:30ish range shown in the video but that was about it, wasn't ever able to go beyond that.
Great game, great memories!
Ahhh, thanx man, been trying to remember this game for years. The only thing I could remember was the little ufos sounding like glass shattering when you hit them. Loved this game at the arcades.
I was also searching for this game for years, all I remembered was a gray fighter jet flying over a field blowing up gray targets, and a catchy soundtrack
I played this today and after all these years I finally got to the first boss. I never knew about it because I always died XD
So I had this on that 5 game blue plug'n'play we all had, and I could consistently get to the first big boss ship when I was about 6-7, but it for some reason scared me so much that I would turn off the game, and to this day, I have never gotten that far again.
"When I joined Namco there was only one bank of computer workstations in the computer room, allowing up to five people to work simultaneously. Then four new people joined, so if someone senior was using one of the five stations, we had to wait at the back of the room for them to finish. So using this set-up we would develop five games in parallel.
Back then, sometimes games were cancelled or turned into something completely different mid-development, and Xevious was the most famous example at the time. Originally with Xevious they were going to use a very realistic looking fighter plane, like the F-4. The game was supposed to be a realistic flight game, involving cutting edge fighters and the most advanced weapons. This was before I joined the company, so this is something I heard from somebody else. One day, the planner for the game suddenly resigned from the company and took off to travel to Africa. At that time Masanobu Endou was the programmer, and he wanted to make the game into something set in a sci-fi world - which is what you now see in Xevious. So he changed the whole thing, and that's Xevious as we now know it."
-- Professor Yoshihiro Kishimoto (game designer and programmer, Namco)
Core memory unlocked
Oh the memories!
A real classic!
A Good Classic Namco Arcade and was Introduced to it on Star Fox Assault as its Bonus game!
Its the Closest thing as the First Thunder Force in the Arcade!
Solvalou longplay when?
You know, that 3D first person version of it!
NEVER if I have any say in the matter 😡😡😡
I remember playing this in the 2000s with family and it was amazing!!! I miss these days! I just snagged a Rg35XX so I can play this again
Ok tell me you spent your entire life learning how to perfect Xevious, without telling me that you spent your entire life perfecting Xevious
The adam of the shmup as we know it
surprised you guys didn’t play it sooner!
I've used to play this game years ago
Esse jogo foi com certeza o melhor jogo de nave de todos os tempos imortal hoje tenho 52 anos e jogo até hoje e o cara que criou esse jogo é um gênio ❤
Seriously what is this thing and what should I do with it before he escapes?! 9:54
I got the nes version and it plays great!
Meu jogo preferido na loja de Fliperamas aqui em João Pessoa (anos 80). Joguei de mais na Playtime. 🤩
for anyone wondering if this game has an ending, the answer is no. How this game works is that it has what you can call levels, that have preset terrain and enemies. Once you get through all the levels and destroy the big boss ship you've beaten all the levels so what the game will do is randomly start cycling through all the levels and reuse the boss every certain number of levels until you run out of lives.
2:51 Andross panels…
This has to be taking place in Peru, because of all the Nasca lines…
Man I loved this game
Surprised you haven’t done this yet!
Huh why did you leave?
1:27 you can get a special flag from New Rallyx Here?????
Great game. I liked these kinds of shooters because you could play for a while, unlike the Williams quarter munchers.
Can you please do Xevious?
Don't forget to turn subtitles on!!! Boom Boom Boom XDXDXD
Gread mesmerizing game when it came out
I have one good thing to say about this game:
If it weren't for this game, we wouldn't have Grobda, and Grobda is probably one of my favorite arcade games of all time
Other than that though, it's WAY too hard
Que saudades 😍
I cant believe this is from 1982 😲
In 40 years
Uau!!! Good gameplay!!! Wonderfull
This, Tokio and Zaxxon.
Just seeing if my comments are pause to protect the community
Xevious NAMCO (1982)
18:56 same sprite than in Swiv a shoot them up on Amiga500 in the 90 !
I think I spent over $800 as a kid playing this game over the years
Original classic
I play this game and it’s my favorite one it’s really hard
actually its harder than shadow of the tomb raider
Ardella Way
Had potential but I couldnt stand the sound of the weapon.
Nice but Starforce was my jam
0:26
Duane Fort
words can't describe how much I hate this game's music. It is the worst music that has ever been written for a video game. it makes me angry every time I play it that the game was released with these noises packed in. It came out the same year as Zaxxon which has the best sound design of the year. there is no excuse for how awful this music is. I am way too invested in how crap the music is.
OH jej my hame Is 1992
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