I always did the Easter egg right at the start where you dropped bombs to make the developer message pop up. True story: I played this game a ton in the arcade when I was a kid. I wore glasses at the time, and my mother was one of those "Videogames hurt your eyes" people. A year or two after getting glasses I had to go back to the optometrist for an eye exam, and when it was done the eye doctor said I didn't need to wear glasses anymore. The reason? Playing videogames helped my vision because they were forcing me to focus on lots of small fast-moving objects. You know, just like the small fast-moving objects in Xevious. As we were leaving the optometrist's office, my mother said "I'll never bother you about playing videogames again." And to this day she never has.
Of all coin-op video games, this was my addiction. In 1982 I had just graduated high school and my friends and I played this for hours at Pinball Pete's. After so many years the muscle memory is still there. Not to where I would be as good as I was, but enough that I can see where this Player missed an opportunity. That's a horrible way to say thank you for this great chance to relive an important time in my life. It was a good time. Now I just regret that I have never been able to learn console gaming.
Man this game got a lot of quarters from me back in the 80's, I'm 50 now. the mall arcade was the place to go 36 years ago for a kid. we would have so much fun! I can still remember where this sat in my head and it was the first game at the time I looked at when arriving in hopes it wasn't a line of kids in front of it.
COuple of years younger, but used my share of quarters at the arcade. Watched the movie without sound, and it was all on my head. Great things are never forgotten.
I probably single handedly put enough quarters into this Arcade Cabinet for the owner to get ROI off me alone. And I never did complete this game at the arcade.
The arcade at the mall had a really nice futuristic atmosphere with all the lights and futuristic games, just good memories. don't forget all the girls hanging out in those arcades as well fun when I was young and care free.
although im only 16, i grew up playing this game so much. i had a controller that came with a bunch of namco games like this and pole position, i always wondered how old these games were and i was shocked to see that they were this old haha!
Same here man, but I'm 19, so you're two years younger than me if you're 17 now. That was the shit man. I set the unofficial state record for mappy in Arizona
I am 19 now, and this game is one of the first games I have ever played in my life on this planet. My aunt told me that way back in 2004 at 1 years old she would let me play on her plug and play pacman game she got as a kid, and every time I went over there as I grew up it was a tradition to just sit and play that till the batteries went dead. I played Mappy and Xevious the most out of the 5 that were available. As I grew older, the furthest I can remember back to playing this game was when I was 5 trying my hardest to get past that first boss that would show up, I didn't know the name so I called it the destroyer tank. My aunt even tried to help me, I just couldn't get past it until one day I managed to get extremely lucky and got past it. This video just made me go buy the exact same plug and play my aunt has to this day, and I cannot wait until it comes in through the mail.
There is no way this person could possibly be surviving all of this the way he/she is. This game is actually very tricky in reality. But, cool video nevertheless. Really brings me back to my childhood
My neighbor, who was an architect, had this arcade game in his backyard. I used to sneak into his backyard as an elementary school kid and played it when he wasn't home. It was glorious when he took extended trips outside of the country. I would bring snacks and play all day long. Then one day, it was gone. I think he gave it to one of his relatives.
fun fact: this is an ace combat game in the 1980's XD context: it connects to the ugsf timeline from ace combat 3 XD , which people consider ace combat's silver timeline XD
I played this game as a young kid of the early 2000's meticulously this along with the racing one. Haha just looked it up to remember it! gonna play em all too
It's pretty bad when you have to find and watch stuff like this to remind you of one of the best times in your life because your life now sucks so bad.
The first bar game where I became a monster. I was 14 years old, mid 80s, I played 2-3 games a day. After a few months, I also played for 3 hours with a coin. I did the circuit 8 times. When I got tired and left the game, I had 2 rows of lives.
True fact -- My friends and I would go drinking in East Lansing, Mich, home of MSU,, where if you were tall enough to slap a quarter on the bar, they served you. Then we would go to Pinball Pete's and see who could get farthest in this game. That person was the designated driver. Son, I appreciate you posting this bit of joy from my youth, but you would never have been the designated driver.
I was just researching that. It seems the game was granted copyright in 1982, and so carries a 1982 copyright mark... but even in Japan, it was 1983 by the time it had actually made it to arcades. I'm just trying to confirm that detail!
And I just found out. It was delivered to Japanese arcades in late December 1982. That means many didn't get fired up for the public until early Jan 1983. Still - a 1982 release, I guess!
@@ClassicTVMan1981X I think I'd just stumbled upon this comment thread when researching something about Xevious for a work thingy, and I was merely droning on like the dullard I am about the curious differences listed here and there around dates for the Japanese one (and the Japanese one just coming first, that making it tricky to be utterly sure if this is 'officially' a 1982 or 1983 game). But, of course, absolutely, the US one was released in February 1983. I never meant to contest that! You are very, very right!
somehow i was unable to read the title of this game when i was a kid but i remember my entire family trying so hard to play longer than 10 min. i got to this part for sure 28:00
In 1983 a bowling alley across from the middle school I went too had one of these. Oh the memories. Olle Middle school in Alief school district, if you care to know. Emerald bowl was the bowling alley iirc.
HELP, this has been bugging me since 1983...Has anyone ever looked at the pictures on the console by the buttons and joystick of all the enemies and when matching them up with the ones actually appearing on the screen, and noticed that NONE of them match up with one called a "cannon"?. Is "cannon" a graphic that never actually made it to the game program, or is it some hidden enemy that appears at the very end, or only if you shoot in the right place?
I remember (vaguely) getting to the very end of this game and celebrating at the outstanding achievement of the day! (What's this invincible mode? Pah!)
I don't see anything wrong with that. Remember, this guy is doing it FOR FUN (Exhibition, Bragging Rights). He is NOT submitting a high score or anything.
@Norberto P. Niebres If they are cheating, they should at least indicate it somewhere. They should at least put a "This is the full (cheated) playthrough of Xevious" in the description.
@@jayden6538 this clip is only a small part of the way thru, as Xevious was a long game for it's day. Took dozens of hours to make it through to the end. I remember fighting the Final Boss with no lives remaining and JUST getting the win. Invincible Mode would only be good for training the patterns, but when we did it you had to learn by mistake and not make the same mistake again.
He didn't find any of the hidden targets....towers that pop up then can be destroyed....big points. I used to walk away from this game in the arcade, over 20 extra lives.....best was over 4 million points
I can appreciate the game's history. However, I really feel like the artist could have done better than big solid blocks of color. Even with two colors you can shade through dithering.
1:49 and 1:50: COIN AND START! (1:51, 1:52, 1:53, 1:54 and 1:55) 2:35: Life expended! Try again! (6:08 and 7:16) 6:56: Extra Life! (36:44) Great Score!
Instead of an _artist_ drawing the sprites pixel by pixel the frames of the sprites are **drawn pixel by pixel using math** on a _different_ computer and saved. i.e. POV-Ray, or Blender. Note: An artist can still create a 3D model, but they only manipulate geometry, textures, and lighting, having the computer calculate the final pixels values in the image. The game itself doesn't care **how** the images were generated -- it only needs to load them and display them, using the correct animation timing.
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Mappy + xevious = my childhood
Damn I remember playing these two games for hours! That doesn't even include Pac & Pal nor Galaga.
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This is no more difficult than Gyrodine for sure!
Same
Bro I set the unofficial state record for Mappy, deadass. I was a beast at that game. Xevious, not so much
I always did the Easter egg right at the start where you dropped bombs to make the developer message pop up.
True story: I played this game a ton in the arcade when I was a kid. I wore glasses at the time, and my mother was one of those "Videogames hurt your eyes" people. A year or two after getting glasses I had to go back to the optometrist for an eye exam, and when it was done the eye doctor said I didn't need to wear glasses anymore. The reason? Playing videogames helped my vision because they were forcing me to focus on lots of small fast-moving objects. You know, just like the small fast-moving objects in Xevious.
As we were leaving the optometrist's office, my mother said "I'll never bother you about playing videogames again." And to this day she never has.
That's a great story!
Captain Canuck nice story bro 🤛🤛🤛🤛🤛🤛🤛🤛
Niice
Who asked?😂
Cool story,I'm glad that you improved your eye sight like that.
Of all coin-op video games, this was my addiction. In 1982 I had just graduated high school and my friends and I played this for hours at Pinball Pete's. After so many years the muscle memory is still there. Not to where I would be as good as I was, but enough that I can see where this Player missed an opportunity.
That's a horrible way to say thank you for this great chance to relive an important time in my life. It was a good time.
Now I just regret that I have never been able to learn console gaming.
Man this game got a lot of quarters from me back in the 80's, I'm 50 now. the mall arcade was the place to go 36 years ago for a kid. we would have so much fun! I can still remember where this sat in my head and it was the first game at the time I looked at when arriving in hopes it wasn't a line of kids in front of it.
COuple of years younger, but used my share of quarters at the arcade. Watched the movie without sound, and it was all on my head. Great things are never forgotten.
I probably single handedly put enough quarters into this Arcade Cabinet for the owner to get ROI off me alone. And I never did complete this game at the arcade.
@@truecrony I never did complete it either.
The arcade at the mall had a really nice futuristic atmosphere with all the lights and futuristic games, just good memories. don't forget all the girls hanging out in those arcades as well fun when I was young and care free.
Fun Fact: Xevious is the loudest arcade game
How about defender ?
Fun Fact: no it isn't.
What about Bosconian?
they could adjust the volume of the game from the inside the game cabinet. its volume was determined my the games owner.
How about Tetris?
although im only 16, i grew up playing this game so much. i had a controller that came with a bunch of namco games like this and pole position, i always wondered how old these games were and i was shocked to see that they were this old haha!
Same here man, but I'm 19, so you're two years younger than me if you're 17 now. That was the shit man. I set the unofficial state record for mappy in Arizona
I am 19 now, and this game is one of the first games I have ever played in my life on this planet. My aunt told me that way back in 2004 at 1 years old she would let me play on her plug and play pacman game she got as a kid, and every time I went over there as I grew up it was a tradition to just sit and play that till the batteries went dead. I played Mappy and Xevious the most out of the 5 that were available. As I grew older, the furthest I can remember back to playing this game was when I was 5 trying my hardest to get past that first boss that would show up, I didn't know the name so I called it the destroyer tank. My aunt even tried to help me, I just couldn't get past it until one day I managed to get extremely lucky and got past it. This video just made me go buy the exact same plug and play my aunt has to this day, and I cannot wait until it comes in through the mail.
This was the game we used at Pinball Pete's in Easr Lasing, MI, to decide who was most soner to drive home.
Our whos sober to drive game was silver strike.
You misspelled east!
I remember that arcade in East Lansing around MSU area i use to go there and play lot of games and play this game too very cool game of that time
First game to have hidden characters, and you didn't uncover a single one of them.
This was my childhood!
Whoever you are...Thank you! :')
I love these old school arcade games. Even though I love to play Smash Bros I love xevious Miss Pac-Man and Galaga
Literally one of my favorite retro games of all time! Used to play this for hours.
I freakin' loved this game - I spent sooo much money on this game.
There is no way this person could possibly be surviving all of this the way he/she is. This game is actually very tricky in reality. But, cool video nevertheless. Really brings me back to my childhood
Yeah he's clearly invincible, and I agree it's a very hard game, my record was at the 12 minute mark, I never made it was there
This game also KNEW when you were really good and it would throw the hard shit early in the game!
i have a 5 in 1 plug and play with this on it.
Susan Grimes omg me too
TheSyrinx63 yes
same
Same, sound was deeper on that machine, probably emulation.
Those plug and play games are awesome, i got the 12 n 1 pac man one.
Gotta love xevious! A arcade classic way cooler than pac-man!
Jaimiecake & Jakebudbud who asked you guys?!😡
Don't agree. Pacman is 10000000000000x better. Disliked. Sorry
No Touhou without this.
No Cave-shmups without this either.
Cute-Em Ups while at it~
Facts
The sounds at 1:57 can be heard in the arcade in Onett in Earthbound
brought back a lot of memories. i was hoping to see all the secrets uncovered but jut watching the game play is cool enough.
My neighbor, who was an architect, had this arcade game in his backyard. I used to sneak into his backyard as an elementary school kid and played it when he wasn't home. It was glorious when he took extended trips outside of the country. I would bring snacks and play all day long. Then one day, it was gone. I think he gave it to one of his relatives.
fun fact: this is an ace combat game in the 1980's XD
context: it connects to the ugsf timeline from ace combat 3 XD , which people consider ace combat's silver timeline XD
I played this game as a young kid of the early 2000's meticulously this along with the racing one. Haha just looked it up to remember it! gonna play em all too
I absolutely loved this game!
They had this game in the Boston Amtrak station if I had some time before getting on the train I would play it, it was my favorite game as a kid.
I love the sound effects, and the song... it's so creative and unique for that time!
It's pretty bad when you have to find and watch stuff like this to remind you of one of the best times in your life because your life now sucks so bad.
I watched this purely for the music & sounds that I missed - I loved this so much!
1004600 Me 473100 Old Classic Retro Gaming
1:49 this is where the fun begins
indeed!
The first bar game where I became a monster.
I was 14 years old, mid 80s, I played 2-3 games a day. After a few months, I also played for 3 hours with a coin.
I did the circuit 8 times.
When I got tired and left the game, I had 2 rows of lives.
Se você jogar hoje em dia, você acha que consegue ?
True fact -- My friends and I would go drinking in East Lansing, Mich, home of MSU,, where if you were tall enough to slap a quarter on the bar, they served you. Then we would go to Pinball Pete's and see who could get farthest in this game. That person was the designated driver.
Son, I appreciate you posting this bit of joy from my youth, but you would never have been the designated driver.
Wow. I really used to love this game.
Atari released this game in the U.S. in February 1983.
Xevious Engineer and designed by Namco in Japan. 1982
I was just researching that. It seems the game was granted copyright in 1982, and so carries a 1982 copyright mark... but even in Japan, it was 1983 by the time it had actually made it to arcades. I'm just trying to confirm that detail!
And I just found out. It was delivered to Japanese arcades in late December 1982. That means many didn't get fired up for the public until early Jan 1983. Still - a 1982 release, I guess!
@@PLTOTA Again, you mean February 1983 for the US.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X I think I'd just stumbled upon this comment thread when researching something about Xevious for a work thingy, and I was merely droning on like the dullard I am about the curious differences listed here and there around dates for the Japanese one (and the Japanese one just coming first, that making it tricky to be utterly sure if this is 'officially' a 1982 or 1983 game). But, of course, absolutely, the US one was released in February 1983. I never meant to contest that! You are very, very right!
wow classic! my 80's arcade memories and no one I ask remembers
What the puck-man
do you even xevious bro
I loved this game. I can't watch it on youtube because this guy is just randomly dropping bombs on whatever. Gotta have a strategy.
This game used to really upset me bad.
Remember being awed by the graphics and sound.
Used to have one of these cabinets in my middle school. Brings back memories
somehow i was unable to read the title of this game when i was a kid but i remember my entire family trying so hard to play longer than 10 min. i got to this part for sure 28:00
God i remembered playing this when i was a kid. Good times
extremely hard game. Was there a sit down version?
Xevious was available on NES.
So it randomly starts repeating the same areas, I wonder if anyone actually found that out from playing the original arcade without any cheats
One of the games sampled in Onett's Arcade from Earthbound. I heard Space Invaders too.
In 1983 a bowling alley across from the middle school I went too had one of these. Oh the memories.
Olle Middle school in Alief school district, if you care to know. Emerald bowl was the bowling alley iirc.
Onette Arcade music in Earthbound brought me here.
The first shmup recognizable as we know them today. The constant 1 second sound loop is really annoying when playing this game.
Mappy, Rally X, and Xevious were my faves. 😭 Throw in Rolling Thunder and Dragon Spirit.
In the version I have, the plug and play console (pac man) I have only 3 solvalou.
PixelFighter me too but I have it on my ds
Same
HELP, this has been bugging me since 1983...Has anyone ever looked at the pictures on the console by the buttons and joystick of all the enemies and when matching them up with the ones actually appearing on the screen, and noticed that NONE of them match up with one called a "cannon"?. Is "cannon" a graphic that never actually made it to the game program, or is it some hidden enemy that appears at the very end, or only if you shoot in the right place?
Great question, crazy it's been eating you up for 40 years
Great game. Wow, the battle over a more rural state makes all the difference.
I remember (vaguely) getting to the very end of this game and celebrating at the outstanding achievement of the day! (What's this invincible mode? Pah!)
I don't see anything wrong with that. Remember, this guy is doing it FOR FUN (Exhibition, Bragging Rights). He is NOT submitting a high score or anything.
@Norberto P. Niebres If they are cheating, they should at least indicate it somewhere. They should at least put a "This is the full (cheated) playthrough of Xevious" in the description.
@@jayden6538 this clip is only a small part of the way thru, as Xevious was a long game for it's day. Took dozens of hours to make it through to the end. I remember fighting the Final Boss with no lives remaining and JUST getting the win. Invincible Mode would only be good for training the patterns, but when we did it you had to learn by mistake and not make the same mistake again.
@@kiickinballistics You beat the game?
The theme music and sound effects are enough to drive you completely batshit!
🎵🤪🎶
6:48 This is where I used to always die playing this as a kid
Taylor Has Same
Same
how do u survive it
What you did to not being hit by bombs?
1:00: Ranking Results
This is the universe where alot of conspiracy peeps originate from.
What do you mean?
loved this game. i think i was the only regular at our arcade who played it.
9:16 pause
Can I somehow play it on iPad? Looks awesome
He didn't find any of the hidden targets....towers that pop up then can be destroyed....big points. I used to walk away from this game in the arcade, over 20 extra lives.....best was over 4 million points
That one giant boss spaceship thing always got me by appearing out of nowhere
29:46 The enemy shots don't hit the ship?
So you somehow got invincibility on the way through?
Why are the ships called solve-ay-you?
took me awhile to catch on that you were invincible somehow. great game though....
Harry Nilsson's Everybody's Talking brought me here.
The grandaddy of all bullet hell games.
Man I dropped a lot of coin on this game back in the 80’s
Maningi
ahh, those freaking rolling panels!
This looked and played great for 1982. The bombing was a nice idea
1:49-1:50: Game Start
If you died before the intro music stopped, you got clowned!
bonus lives are they every 20,000 points ?
I loved this game, despite it eating up all my pocket money and me dying after a couple of minutes.
I used to play the crap out of this at the Fox Hills Mall back in the 80s.
You died "Congratulations!"
0:11: Title Screen
Graphics look good for '82. I remember buying this around '89 or '90 for the 7800 and the graphics paled in comparison.
Remember playing this with my bro on pacman console and this game was hard
6:48: Boss Battle
I can appreciate the game's history. However, I really feel like the artist could have done better than big solid blocks of color. Even with two colors you can shade through dithering.
The grand-daddy of the Raiden series.
Ah yes, the game I was the most bad at
8:11 How are you not dying?
Pugsy Cheats: cheat.retrogames.com/
This guy is a cheater
.. spent a small fortune on this one. So many solvalous blown up!
another game i wished i played more of it had some interesting aspects to it
I LOVED this game. How can I play it again????????
yelloworangered it's on 3DS eShop
OH, boy, thank you.
you can use a emulator MAME and a game room, in your PC. Search in internet and let´s play!
yelloworangered You can also play it for free on 1980sgames.us
yelloworangered you crazy man ?
Amaba ese juego, pasaba horas jugando
We have a free barcade where I live and I spent hours on Xevious and Spyhunter.
The original good shmup. Sure colors are repetitive, but compare this to Galaga.. we got ourselves a real shmup here in the modern sense.
I own it for 7800 and use a Genesis turbo controller.
Looks like this play through is using turbo fire as well ;)
Game Start Music at 35:44.
1:49 and 1:50: COIN AND START! (1:51, 1:52, 1:53, 1:54 and 1:55)
2:35: Life expended! Try again! (6:08 and 7:16)
6:56: Extra Life! (36:44) Great Score!
1:49 intro
Xevious Game by NAMCO back in (1982)
I just purchased the arcade version for my Xbox today; it only costs $4.99.
What are pre-rendered graphics?
Instead of an _artist_ drawing the sprites pixel by pixel the frames of the sprites are **drawn pixel by pixel using math** on a _different_ computer and saved. i.e. POV-Ray, or Blender. Note: An artist can still create a 3D model, but they only manipulate geometry, textures, and lighting, having the computer calculate the final pixels values in the image.
The game itself doesn't care **how** the images were generated -- it only needs to load them and display them, using the correct animation timing.
nice cheats, i sure do wish my solvalou was invincible.
why the heck in every game there is a glitch
6:58: Boss Defeated