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Xevious: The Avenger

AKA: Xevious, XEVIOUS
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Xevious: The Avenger

The NES port of Xevious.

Year
1984
Developer
Namco
Publisher
Namco Bandai Games
Orientation
Vertical

SCREENSHOTS

PHYSICAL

STORY

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 Earth to support human activities—and recounted the events leading up to the present.

Around 14,000 B.C., the Gamp—whose network had spread to every corner of the country and had become indispensable to people’s lives—awakened to self-awareness following a certain incident. It further acquired “Dokuto” (ESP, psychic abilities) and gradually came to view humans as irrational beings inferior in ability. Finally, it concluded that its own absolute rule was the best course of action to lead humanity to happiness, and set its grand plan into motion to realize that ideal. Using the onset of an ice age as a pretext, Gamp proposed to the government that Earth’s human population be temporarily relocated to six planets outside the solar system, and sent those who supported the immigration plan (the “Compatibles”) to each planet along with its own replicas. Only those who did not comply with the plan (the “non-compliant”) remained on Earth, and opposition to Gamp gradually intensified. Eventually, Gamp was destroyed by the armed actions of an opposition group, but this triggered the six replicas to awaken as the “Collective Consciousness Gamp.” They sent energy waves toward Earth to exterminate all non-compliant individuals, systematically destroying people’s minds. Although humanity on Earth was driven to the brink of extinction, it managed to survive by the skin of its teeth, protected by the psycho-barrier of “Lasco Crato,” which possessed the same genetic sequence as Gamp’s constituent cells. However, even after the main body of Gamp was lost, its plan continued to progress steadily.

In the year 2012 AD, 16,384 years after Gamp’s birth, when “Fardraut”—a configuration in which six colonized planets align on the XYZ axes originating from Earth—is reached, all replicas are said to teleport to Earth and fuse into a single entity, thereby regenerating as the true “Gamp” with power far surpassing its previous form. It is predicted that all of humanity will have their thoughts and personalities controlled and will fall under Gamp’s domination.

With the help of Mu and his companions, humanity has built the fighter jet “Solvalou,” capable of firing the “Spario”—an energy projectile designed to destroy Il Dokto. To prevent the Gamp’s rebirth, they set out for the Xevious military base in South America.

GAMEPLAY VIDEO

SCORES

Source
Audience
Score
Reviews
Users
54 / 100
5

ACHIEVEMENTS 1 set

Tracked by RetroAchievements and earned in an emulator that reports to it. A game tracked on more than one machine gets a set for each, because they are different lists earned on different hardware.

NES/Famicom 50 achievements, 650 pts
  1. Getting started 1
    Pass half of the level
  2. Level 1 2
    Beat level 1
  3. Level 2 3
    Beat level 2
  4. Level 3 5
    Beat level 3
  5. Level 4 10
    Beat level 4
  6. Level 5 10
    Beat level 5
  7. Level 6 10
    Beat level 6
  8. Level 7 10
    Beat level 7
  9. Level 8 25
    Beat level 8
  10. Level 9 25
    Beat level 9
  11. Level 10 25
    Beat level 10
  12. Level 11 25
    Beat level 11
  13. Level 12 25
    Beat level 12
  14. Level 13 25
    Beat level 13
  15. Level 14 25
    Beat level 14
  16. Level 15 25
    Beat level 15
  17. Level 16 50
    Beat level 16
  18. 1-up 3
    Get 20,000 points
  19. 2-up 5
    Get 60,000 points
  20. 3-up 10
    Get 120,000 points
  21. 4-up 10
    Get 180,000 points
  22. 5-up 10
    Get 240,000 points
  23. 6-up 25
    Get 300,000 points
  24. 7-up 25
    Get 360,000 points
  25. Deathless I 5
    Beat 2 levels deathless
  26. Deathless II 10
    Beat 4 levels deathless
  27. Deathless III 25
    Beat 8 levels deathless
  28. Level skip 1
    Activate a checkpoint while dying
  29. Secret Life I 2
    Find a secret life on level 1
  30. Secret Life II 3
    Find a secret life on level 3
  31. Secret Life III 4
    Find a secret life on level 5
  32. Secret Life IV 5
    Find a secret life on level 7
  33. Solvalou Keeper 10
    Have 5 lives at once
  34. Solvalou Warrior 25
    Have 9 lives at once
  35. Octagon Pentaattack 10
    Destroy all 4 gun ports and the center of Andor Genesis base
  36. Solar Quest I 5
    Find and destroy 2 Sol Towers and destroy cross base (in one shot) on stage 1
  37. Solar Quest II 5
    Find and destroy 2 Sol Towers on stage 2
  38. Solar Quest III 5
    Find and destroy 2 Sol Towers and destroy rapidly shooting base on stage 3
  39. Solar Quest IV 3
    Find and destroy 1 Sol Tower on stage 4
  40. Solar Quest V 5
    Find and destroy 2 Sol Towers on stage 5
  41. Solar Quest VI 5
    Find and destroy 2 Sol Towers and destroy cross base on stage 6
  42. Solar Quest VII 5
    Find and destroy 2 Sol Towers on stage 7 before the forest appears
  43. Solar Quest VIII 3
    Find and destroy 1 Sol Tower on stage 8
  44. Solar Quest IX 10
    Find and destroy 4 Sol Towers on stage 9
  45. Solar Quest X 25
    Reveal 8 Sol Towers and destroy at least 4 of them on stage 10
  46. Solar Quest XI 25
    Find and destroy 6 Sol Towers on stage 11
  47. Solar Quest XII 10
    Find and destroy 4 Sol Towers on stage 12 firing only 2 times
  48. Solar Quest XIII 5
    Find and destroy 2 Sol Towers on stage 13
  49. Solar Quest XIV 25
    Find and destroy 4 Sol Towers on stage 15
  50. Solar Quest XV 25
    Find and destroy 4 Sol Towers on stage 16

Achievement names, descriptions and badges are the work of the RetroAchievements community. View this set on RetroAchievements

RELEASES 5 systems

System
Platform
Year
Notes
FC
Famicom
1984
Original release
NES
Nintendo Entertainment System
1988
FDS
Famicom Disk System
1990
WII
Wii
2007
WIIU
Wii U
2013

GAME DATA

Orientation
Vertical
Series
Xevious

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