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Xevious: The Avenger

Xevious: The Avenger

Aka: Xevious
Console: Nintendo Entertainment System
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): Namco
Publisher(s): Bandai America, Inc.
Release Date: 1988-09-22
Players: 2
Co-op: No
ESRB: E - Everyone
Type: Shooter
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The player uses an 8-way joystick to pilot a combat aircraft called a Solvalou, which is armed with a forward-firing Zapper for aerial targets and a Blaster which fires an unlimited supply of air-to-surface bombs for ground targets. The game, presumably set in Peru, was noted for the varied terrain below, which included forests, airstrips, bases, and mysterious Nazca Line-like drawings on the ground