Super Xevious

Super Xevious is not a sequel of Xevious. It is an upgrade to the original version, making it more difficult and adding a new set of enemies to the mix.

Due to the tremendous popularity of Xevious, players eventually mastered it and learned how to play for longer and longer periods. Since Xevious does not have an ending and the game plays continuously, expert players aspired to the challenge of reaching the highest score possible in the fastest amount of time. This still took a considerable amount of time, and arcade owners were seeing less money coming in from the machine as players took long turns. In order to entice arcade owners, Namco created Super Xevious as an upgrade that promised to generate profits again.

Super Xevious increases the overall difficulty of Xevious (which many consider to be quite difficult to begin with) by enhancing the aggressiveness of the enemy aircraft. Because it was known that high scores were a highly sought after goal, some of the new enemies introduced in Super Xevious actual reset the score to 0 if they are destroyed. This changes the mindset of the game from "destroy everything in sight" to being more judicial about what you shoot at. Instead of shooting some of the new objects, you are meant to fly over them and pick them up in order to be awarded substantial bonus points.

New enemies
coming soon