Series
There were several arcade sequels and a spin-off, though none achieved much popularity:
- Super Xevious (1984) was practically the same game made significantly harder, and with a few rarely-seen new enemies.
- Solvalou (1991) presented the same game with a pilot's-eye view. The game used 3-D flat shaded polygon graphics. Released in Japan only.
- Xevious 3D/G (1995) was an update on the classic with 3-D texture mapped polygon graphics and a simultaneous two-player feature. Released in Japan only.
- Xevious Arrangement (1995) was part of the Namco Classic Collection Vol. 1 game collection (along with the original Xevious and Super Xevious). The arranged version had improved music and graphics and different levels.
- Grobda (1984) was a spin-off starring an enemy character—the tank with corkscrew treads.
Five new versions were released for home systems (most of them being Japan-only):
- Super Xevious: GAMP no Nazo (1986) was released for the Nintendo Famicom and the Nintendo Vs. series on the Arcades. The player must solve riddles in each stage in order to progress. Unless certain criteria are met, the stage loops indefinitely, getting harder and harder in the process.
- Xevious: Fardraut Saga (1988) was released for the MSX2 computers and developed by Compile. The player can select between two modes at the title screen, Recon (port of the original arcade Xevious) and Scramble, which is a new 16-area game with new enemies and 4 different ships to play with (Solvalou, Solgrado, Zeodalley and Gampmission).
- Xevious: Fardraut Densetsu (1990) was released for the PC Engine and also developed by Compile. This is the sequel to Fardraut Saga and it features two modes of play selectable from the title screen, Original (port of the original arcade Xevious) and Fardraut, which is a 4-stage story mode with cut-scenes, power-ups and a different ship on each level.
- Xevious: Scramble Mission (2006) was a game developed by Namco and released by Bandai on the Let's TV Play Classic Namco Nostalgia 1 along with Mappy, the original Xevious, and another exclusive game called Mappy: Revenge of Nyamco. Xevious: Scramble Mission reuses the graphics and engine of the arcade version of Xevious in a new mission where the Solvalou ship must navigate a fortress while being timed and must destroy a new version of Gamp.
- Xevious Resurrection (2009) is part of the PlayStation 3 downloadable title Namco Museum Essentials (Namco Museum.comm in Japan).
- An RTS game titled New Space Order, was in production in Japan by Namco Bandai Games for the System N2 arcade system board, but has been cancelled. It would contain elements from the Xevious video game series. In the game there was going to be an interplanetary nation called the "Military Empire," in which the population speaks the Xevi language, the same language spoken by the dwellers of planet Xevious. Their theme song, sung in Xevi, can be downloaded from the game's homepage.
- An anime adaption of the game, called New Space Order: Link of Life, has been released in February 2007.
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