At 25, Xevious is probably older than a number of the people reading this review. For those of you who dont know, this 1982 Namco coin-muncher was one of the first vertical scrolling arcade shooters, helping establish the standard for everything that came in its wake. And while the shooter genre has largely come and gone in the annals of gamedom, Xevious remains a very big part of interactive entertainment history.
But the problem with porting and releasing downright ancient games like this on ...