Achieved at : 2022-01-12
Rank : 2
(22% worse)
Lups : 291
Approved :
Yes
Voting completed : 2022-01-23
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Namco Museum Archives Volume 1 is a collection of Nintendo Entertainment System ports for the PC. This is the Xevious port, played on the 12th January 2021, on PC. Score achieved was 77,940 points. It took me many games to work out how to get past the massive first level boss - the Andor Genesis, but I finally did it!
Xevious was released to arcades in 1982, where it's attractive graphics and huge end of level 1 boss draw attention. It is regarded as a significant game that led to the development of the later vertical shooters that followed it. Today the game doesn't have the freshness it had on release and feels a little basic. Likewise, your ship moves quite slowly compared to later contemporaries, adding to the pedestrian nature of play. However, it still deserves respect for being a pioneer of the genre - and it is still fun to play,
The NES version was released by Namco and Bandai in 1984. It's as good a port of the arcade original as you could expect for the NES at the time and there isn't really anything more to say than that. They could have done a better job of the title screen graphics, which look like a port from the Atari 2600!
Time stamps:
00:30 Namco Museum Archives main screen, Xevious selected.
00:41 Game loaded.
00:46 Game start.
04:04 20,000 points reached, extra life.
04:44 First life lost.
05:05 Second life lost.
05:57 Andor Genesis destroyed.
07:49 Extra life awarded for reaching 60,000 points.
08:01 Third life lost.
08:29 Fourth life lost.
09:22 Fifth life lost. Game Over. Final score 77,940 points.
Xevious was released to arcades in 1982, where it's attractive graphics and huge end of level 1 boss draw attention. It is regarded as a significant game that led to the development of the later vertical shooters that followed it. Today the game doesn't have the freshness it had on release and feels a little basic. Likewise, your ship moves quite slowly compared to later contemporaries, adding to the pedestrian nature of play. However, it still deserves respect for being a pioneer of the genre - and it is still fun to play,
The NES version was released by Namco and Bandai in 1984. It's as good a port of the arcade original as you could expect for the NES at the time and there isn't really anything more to say than that. They could have done a better job of the title screen graphics, which look like a port from the Atari 2600!
Time stamps:
00:30 Namco Museum Archives main screen, Xevious selected.
00:41 Game loaded.
00:46 Game start.
04:04 20,000 points reached, extra life.
04:44 First life lost.
05:05 Second life lost.
05:57 Andor Genesis destroyed.
07:49 Extra life awarded for reaching 60,000 points.
08:01 Third life lost.
08:29 Fourth life lost.
09:22 Fifth life lost. Game Over. Final score 77,940 points.