Ports
Xevious has been ported to multiple other formats, including the Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, NEC PC Engine, and Nintendo Entertainment System game consoles, as well as the MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Apple II and Atari ST home computers.
The game has also been included in a number of classic arcade game compilations for consoles and PC, including Namco Museum Volume 2 for the original PlayStation in 1996, Microsoft Revenge of Arcade for PC in 1998, Namco Museum 50th Anniversary for Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and PC in 2005 (The game did not appear in the scaled-down Game Boy Advance version of Namco Museum 50th Anniversary.), Namco Museum Battle Collection for the PlayStation Portable in 2005, Namco Museum DS for the Nintendo DS in 2007, Namco Museum Remix for the Wii in 2007, and Namco Museum Essentials for the PlayStation 3 in 2009. In 2004, Xevious was also ported to the plug-n-play format as part of the Ms. Pac-Man TV Game arcade compilation, released by Jakks Pacific and developed by HotGen Studios.
The NES version of the game was repackaged for Game Boy Advance in 2004 as part of the Classic NES Series, was included as an unlockable bonus game in Star Fox: Assault in 2005, and was released for the Virtual Console on January 15, 2007.
In 2005, Namco released the game on the mobile platform for cellphones. It was released on Xbox Live Arcade on May 23, 2007.
Paired releases with Super Xevious include Namco Classic Collection Vol. 1, Namco Museum DS and Xevious 3D/G+ for the original PlayStation.
An Atari 2600 port was planned, but never released.
This game has also been released as part of the Pac-Man's Arcade Party arcade machine in 2010.
3D Classics: Xevious is a port of this game with 3D effects added to separate all of the objects in the air and everything on ground, and the port takes advantage of the whole 3DS's top screen instead of it being limited to the game's original resolution (with moving clouds added on to the sides), it's available for download on the Nintendo eShop of the Nintendo 3DS console for $5.99.
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