Xevious: The Avenger
The NES port of Xevious.
Xevious: The Avenger is an adventure developed by Namco, released 8 November 1984 on Wii U, Wii, Family Computer and Family Computer Disk System.
What Xevious: The Avenger is
Xevious: The Avenger is an adventure game developed by Namco and released in 1984. It was published by Bandai. It is available on Wii U, Wii, Family Computer, Family Computer Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the year 2009, Earth came under attack by the Xevious Army, led by the superintelligence known as “Gamp.” Possessing technology far more advanced than Earth’s and armed with “Il-Dokuto”—a substance impervious even to nuclear weapons—the Xevious Army overran South America. With humanity left with no recourse, “Mu-Krato” and the android “Eve,” who had returned to Earth for the first time in approximately 12,000 years aboard the spaceship “SHEONITE” from the planet Xevious, extended a helping hand. They revealed that the true nature of the Gamp currently invading Earth is one of six “replicas” of the “Gamp”—a biological computer created by an ultra-ancient civilization that once existed on…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Xevious: The Avenger launched on 8 November 1984, within three weeks of Ghostbusters and Paperboy.
Released around the same time: Ghostbusters, Paperboy.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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