Namco’s library of early polygonal arcade games continues to make its way over to modern hardware with the latest entry in the Arcade Archives series.
Japanese publisher Hamster Corporation has been working through the library of games released on Namco’s System 22 arcade board – which saw the company making the jump to polygonal games – as well as its more powerful Super System 22 board, and releasing them through its Arcade Archives series.
It also indicated in June that its plans for Namco’s arcade titles go beyond System 22 as it added the original Tekken as an Arcade Archives 2 title. This was released on Namco’s System 11 board, meaning its release on Arcade Archives potentially opened the door to more System 11 titles like Tekken 2, Soul Edge and Pocket Racer.
Now Hamster has announced that it will indeed be bringing another System 11 game to Arcade Archives, with its 1996 shoot ’em up Xevious 3D/G set to release on September 24.
Xevious 3D/G is the eight entry in Namco’s Xevious series of scrolling shoot ’em ups, and the first to move from sprite-based graphics to polygonal ones. Players take control of their Solvalou spacecraft and shoot down oncoming Xevious enemies to prevent them from taking over the human race.
Because the System 11 arcade board shared some similarities with the original PlayStation hardware, the game got a PS1 port in 1997. This marks the first time the actual arcade version has been made available on home systems, however.
While Hamster Corporation tends to release new games under both its Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 series these days, Xevious 3D/G appears to be one of the few that will only be getting an Arcade Archives 2 release. This means it’ll be coming to PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Switch 2, but not Switch or PS4.
هەر یارییەکی Arcade Archives تایبەتمەندی Original Mode، High Score Mode (کە بەردەوام دەبیت لە یاریکردن تاوەکو Game Over بەدەست دەهێنیت) و Caravan Mode (کە دەبێت بەرزترین نمرە لە ماوەی کاتێکی دیاریکراودا بەدەستبهێنیت).
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