Great video, with solid research! I was the Xevious champion in Brazil, during the period I played (1984-6), according to the technicians who distributed the machines across the country. I played in an arcade in the city of Lages (SC). Some fond memories: - Played the same game for up to 13 hours (when the arcade closed...); - It reached the limit of points that the game counted: 9.999.990; - My Souvalous record (accumulated extra ships) was 72; - When crossing the entire map became easy (we called it “turning the tables”), I started to cross it without shooting a single shot or bomb, just dodging enemy shots; - I once went through the entire territory (loop the map) with the same ship; Thanks, PatmanQC! Thanks, Mr. Endo! Thanks, Xevious civilization!

A massive thanks for letting me be a part of this one! Great video as always mate

Whenever I feel compelled to redo my mame setup, this is one of the core games I install along with Burgertime, TMNT, Space Harrier, and Ms. Pac Man.

I believe Xevious was included on one of those Jakks joystick Pac-Man games back in the mid 2000s. It was fun to tinker around with.

Started playing this in '84 in the uni arcade and it became my all-time favourite arcade game. I couldn't quite play indefinitely but did loop the map a few times. Pretty sure I knew where all the citadels (sol towers) were, definitely more than documented on the net. I own a bootleg arcade PCB (Xevios by Watson) and the Namco Classics Vol 1 PCB which contains Xevious, Super Xevious and Xevious Arrangement. I wrote the original MAME driver for Namco Classics Vol 1 PCB specifically for this game! Currently RE'ing the arcade ROM but the code is very data-driven and after a point it's very difficult to decypher. There's an unreleased arcade-perfect Jaguar port and I was hoping to make a Neo Geo port based on my RE. Some day.

I live in Japan, and there's a retro arcade I visit that has Xevious and Xevious Arrangement on one machine. Thanks as always, PTQC.

Masanobu Endō, in my personal opinion, was the Rembrandt of video game character design. And Xevious is my favorite shoot-em-up of all time. I mean, the best of its kind, ever!

One of the classics - your arcade game history videos are great.

I always loved the "metalic" look to everything with such simple graphics.

Your videos bring back memories of me and my late brother growing up. We hung out a lot on arcades as kids. Keep it up!

Grew up playing this...MEMORIES!

Fantastic documentary again as always, Patman, and cool to hear the narration by Slopes!

You could always hear this game in the background at Panama Bowling when I was a kid.

I always loved Xevious, especially the design of the world map and the various enemy sprites, not to mention the hidden enemies/flags. It's almost up there with Dragon Spirit, my favorite vertical scrolling shooter. Gotta admit, I do not understand the immense, enduring popularity of Galaga. Gyruss, which was essentially the same game, was superior in almost every way IMHO. But my favorite "enemies in formation" vertical shooter was Solarian II on the 90's era Mac. It was just so weird.

Strange I remember playing Solvalou as a young kid in the US. There was one in the arcade at the Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas. I remember it being a big sit down cabinet and I was very impressed by its 3d graphics. I asking my dad what the game was called as I couldn't pronounce Solvalou. I distinctly remember him saying "Solvalou its the ship from Xevious". He would have know this as he was fan of Xevious and had bought me a copy for the NES.

I love Xevious! My first experience with this game was on the 7800 and I was not even aware of the fact that it was an arcade port! Another excellent video!

I love your videos. They are truly wonderful and a joy to watch.

ABSOLUTELY superb video again maestro When XEVIOUS came out I hunted it after school at various riding-distance locations & still clearly remember each!' always preferred the loudest one as the sound of shooting the Hal-slabs is just too good There are several hidden bonuses in the water you know. . . . Your new LRLRLYXRBA startup version also tops 🗿🗿✌️

Hardest part of any day is seeing a PatmanQC video on your timeline and having to wait to watch it. Looking forward to the conversions!

This thing was ahead of it's time for 82' Amazing game... still enjoyable today

Great video! I first tried this a year ago and got hooked trying to discover every sol tower. It's become one of my fav shmups, top 25 material! (and without nostalgia involved) :D Almost didn't play it because of its outdated presentation (particularly the looks of the main shot and the "OST") but I'm so glad I gave it a chance (^.^)

I first played this at a holiday camp I went to as a kid circa 1986. I always loved the stylised, clean, minimalist aesthetic of the graphics and thought the game to be very unique as shooters went. Even 4 years after its release it still looked good next to newer games, IMO. I liked it so much I asked my parents to get me the C64 version when it came out, but the less said about that the better! 😭 Thanks once again for a great video. Xevious was a good choice! 😊

played it in on the Microsoft arcade compilation years ago. never made it to the big ship tho. it had namco classics like mappy etc.

And here we go with another jewel! Great documentary Patman!! Keep on the memories alive! We really need it! 😀

Simply briilliant - the research, the delivery, the perfect length - and ofcourse an interesting game. Thank you for your videos.🙏

Xevious, this is a good one!

One of the most important things about Xevious was the sound design. The way the note progression of the music is interrupted by player shots and other effects created a feeling that the players inputs were creating the games music in real time. This effect inspired other game designers in the creation of their music-focused games. One well known example is Rez, Tetsuya Mizuguchi mentions how he was inspired by Xevious in some of the game commentary extras.

The later game looks almost exactly like another game I use to love playing: Slap Fight where you gained extensions to your ships sides giving you extra fire powers.

One of my faves.

I had no idea it ran this deep. I played it on those joystick 🕹️ plug ins i remember finding at a Walmart back then. I never remembered the name but the mirror squares are so iconic.

I love the story of this game, which you don't often say about a space shooter from the 1980s! Thousands of years ago there was a massive advanced civilization, yeah, the Atari promotional video mentioned in PAtman's vid covered that, but the game had a limited language made for it. "Xevious" means "fourth" in that language, and the Xevious fleet is from ( you guessed it ) the fourth of 7 colonies made in deep space to survive the ice age. Your ship is a gift from a defector from the colonies, and your player character, the pilot, is actually an archaologist who discovered remnants of this civilization in Peru. The GAMP briefly mentioned during the talk of ports and sequels is the Genetic Artificial Matrix Producer, a machine that created a race of superhuman servants for the civilization, and by extension, Gamps are also the term used for it's vat-grown minions. Somewhere in this history there was a Gamp revolt before the ice age. A lot of this could be found in the manual to Xevious 3DG+ on PlayStation, as well as online.

Xevious was my favorite game on my 7800. The good Ole days!

Hey, cool. The bacura enemies show up in some of the Tales games, and I never knew they came from Xevious.

I played one of the later xevious at someone’s home in the early 90s in Germany on some kind of home computer. I remember the game to be very close to the pc engine version you showed. I was always looking for the game to play it again, because it was amazing at the time. I found out about xevious but it wasn’t the version I played. This video is the first time I saw the game again since 30 years. Thank you so much!

The first jingle that plays when you start Xevious up, specifically the slowed version that plays on the plug-and-play system, is the first thing I ever heard in any video game ever. When I hear it now, I unironically have a 10 minute flashback to the old days playing in my mom’s room

Really great documentary on Xevious! I really enjoyed this. 👍

I played this game for the very first time 1 day before this video went up! What a nice coincidence! It was on a multi-game cabinet at a bowling alley, and it also had all of the Galaga games and a bunch of other stuff I hadn't played before. Real nice find out in the wild. Anyway, your videos are always top notch, Patman! I appreciate you!

Another great video! I didn't know about the sequels, and didn't know about the later games having 2 player coop. That just makes the game that much better! I know you mentioned having a separate video for the conversions, but I definitely love the 3DS version with 3D!!! An amazing way to play, and an amazing sense of 3D. If only they did a version of the later one's so you could have local wireless coop. That would definitely be the definitive version. The PS1 version looks great, but rather pricey these days, and with the PS3 version being de-listed (that version looks great too!), I've unfortunately missed out on that as well (another big CON for digital-only!). I'll definitely keep an eye out for those though. I definitely appreciate all the effort you put into these videos. Jam packed with information and I'm always learning something new (if only my wallet could keep up)! Keep up the great content!

The background music always reminds me of the Starcade Tv game show.

I put a lot of quarters into this game back in the day

I played the NES version a lot growing up. It’s one of those games you can just play for hours.

Great video. Even though I grew up mostly in the era of 16bits consoles, I was always fascinated by Xevious peculiar aesthetics and atmosphere.

Xevious is such a simple but fantastic game. One of the top 10 arcade titles for me, my first experience with it was the NES version included in Star Fox Assault.

love you PatMan. Always look forward tp your drops.

Interesting thing I have noticed was that the Souvalou's bomb cursor flashes red when over an enemy or the hidden towers of sol, which have to be bombed twice for a big bonus.

WOW !... This was a fantastic documentary on a fantastic game ! My absolute favorite from the Arcade era of the late 70's to early 80's. I always have to think a bit about what games round out my top 10 video arcade games are... EXCEPT for Xevious which automatically always, ALWAYS immediately get's #1 !

Nice!.. Xevious was one of my favorite games as a kid. I think the background "music" is still stuck in my head.

Finally Patman, one of my favorite shmups back in the good old 80s. I used to spend all my pocket money on this machine. Go gen X.

Hey, thanks a lot for your videos. This one in particular inspired me to start my own channel and talk about games I love, such as Xevious

Wow, that Slope's voice over was unexpected! But, hello you. (Joking, I know that's yet a different guy.)

Another fantastic retrospective. Thanks, Patman!

Awesome video as always Patman! Can't wait for the video on the xevious home ports. Love your content.

Capcom even had there own version called exed exes. lots of game companies tried to copy it. but none could match the original.

Fantastic video that makes justice for one of the most important shooters

Such an incredible video and just wow.

This was such a wonderful in depth history of this wonderful game, only told best by Mr.PatmanQC. I have come across it in my M.A.M.E library, but after hearing about its marvelous backstory, it will be one of the games that I will surely check out, when I start playing around with M.A.M.E again. 😁☝️

One of the most important games ever made that a lot of people in the west forget about when discussing truly influential titles. Vertical shoot'em ups as we would come to know them today all owe their existence to Xevious and it's massive popularity in Japan. Clones of this game lead to new ideas and refinements that shaped the genre.

Great video. Like the game, would love to see a Patch or a new version with pink bullets. Those pesky white bullets are hard to see on the background

I fell in love with Xevious when I got it for my Atari 7800. This was an amazing documentary!

Great game, and one of my favourites as a kid.. still play it on MAME to this day!

So loved this game in the arcades back in the day. Nice, Slopes Game Room in the mix too, champion! Keep busting those cool videos.

Xevious 3DG on PS1 also has the bonus of being able to play Xevious, Super Xevious and Xevious Arrangement as they are on the disc too.

I love this iconic, genre starting game. I sadly don't like Galaga but I would play with fun cousins (at least during childhood). God bless and thank you sir Endi-san.

Recently, the trailer for that lost Xevious movie was found, and posted on RNDstranger’s channel with a documentary on it

The music to Xevious. So snappy and upbeat. And the sounds, glassy pinging off the rotating tiles. The game sounds hot. Second behind Space Harrier.

Nice little Easter egg there with Snopes! I immediately recognized that voice.

One of my favorite arcade games, Xevious.

Yes! One of my favorite games of all time. Keep up the good work as always.

Loved the sounds in this one

Hey wow I thought I was a Xevious superfan knowing everything but I learned some things here. Thanks for this!

Many thanks for a fascinating video. I absolutely loved this game when first coming across it in the early 80's in an arcade in my hometown. I was never sure of the purpose of the 'powerup' your ship seems to temporarily receive part way through in the form of the spinning diamonds that hover in front of the salvolou (shown in 12:20 in this video). It at least seems to have a purpose in one of the remakes. I was aware of some of the sequels/remakes but not all. That PS3 exclusive looks awesome! Such a shame it can no longer be played as I'd love to have a go at it. Looking forward to seeing your video on the home conversions of this.

I am proud of you by not saying that "other term" used in the Shooter games. Keep up the great work!!!

Thanks for another video. I recently got this game in an arcade collection for my Xbox One. I haven't played it yet thought but I am looking forward to it!

Haha - was waiting for the c64 version....I'll wait for the conversion vid...great work man!

I absolutely love your videos . So much detail that I even watch the ones with games that I wasn't a huge fan of back in the day . I gotta have you make a bumper for my tiny channel one day . I just want a " Happy Little Videos " at the start of my videos . Lol . That would be AWESOME !!!!

Love your work!

The sharp and realistic graphics really caught my attention when I first came across it in a Chucky Cheese.

Xevious is my favourite arcade game of all time.

Sounding GREAT, hoping you're on the mend. (Scramble was AMAZING)

The version of this game on the sharp Super MZ (mz-2500) was a thing to be hold!

Xevious is devious.

9:02 I like that with this game you have two different ways of blasting depending if they are land targets or air targets you can either shoot little short range pellets so we can press the blaster But to charge up a Take and rover destroying missile. It’s a namco Brended dog fight and what not to say about that

LOL I just watched that clip with Macho Man Randy Savage and Mean Gene where Randy is going on about how 'the cream rises to the top'. Speaking honestly, Xevious was one of the games I didn't like, mainly because I'm not that good at games ( but love to play them ) Thanks Patman for another great and comprehensive review~!

THX a LOT !

I always thought this was an unknown gem as nobody I knew had heard of it. I'm glad that it was much beloved. I'm kinda impressed with Xiagra as a weird legacy of popularity lol

This game is awesome

Pacmanqc great work Sir thank you

There WAS a Cheyenne game, kind of like a light gun western. Our laundromat had one. Main character was called Buster Badshot.

Loved this game so much, thank you. 6.5K views and only ~720 likes? *shakes head*

I started playing this game in 1984 along with Super Xevious I got so good at Xevius $1 dollar would last me 5 hours 👍 👍 I remember Super Mario sitting right next to Xevious I never played Mario Xevious all day long and that's what I liked about the PlayStation 1 they released a lot of space shooters like Xevious if course the PS1 had better graphics but the feel of the later shooters still kinda felt like Xevious and that's what I liked about the 90s Space shooters

Nice, Patman! Some nice versions and sequels came along that I didn't know about. I've gotta give the 3-D versions a try. How 'bout dat music!? The background music was so iconic that it was used regularly on the TV show Starcade.

Love it when pat and daniel collab.

Another good one Patman.

that xevious song and sound effects ..very unique. you cant hear them and not think...xevious.

A playable version was also included in Ridge Racer 7(?) for the PS3 as a loading screen.

This game title won me so many games of hangman.

Since u briefly mentioned starblade, here are 2 fun facts about it: 1. While loading tekken 5, u can play the first level of it 2. It was 1 of the 4 games included in the home port of tekken 5. The others were arcade ports of tekken 1-3

Great! I always look for coop games. Did not know that.

Thanks for another video!

Thanks for the video. I own an original arcade Xevious full-size cabinet