Is Xevious for A7800 the best arcade port ever?

[Kombalar]

I'm a huge Xevious fanatic. I have completed the game in all difficulty levels and my arcade high score is over 1 million points. I spent my youth with this legendary game.

 

But only recently I discovered the A7800 port of this game and damn what a great version it is. Very true to the original in many ways. Flags, hidden towers, map, etc.

 

I owned a A2600 when I was very small kid but I never saw A7800 in person. It wasn't sold in my country (Scandinavia). I only saw pictures on the gaming magazines. If I had this home port version of Xevious when I was 10 years old I would have gone nuts.

 

PS: I also had very impressive homemade port of Space Duel for 7800 (for my 7800 emulator) but lost it. I wonder if it's still available somewhere.

 

Cheers.

Edited December 28, 2017 by Kombalar

[+xucaen]

Do you own a Jaguar?

 

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/243593-xevious-on-jaguar/page-1

[Inky]

My only problem is the graphics, and that's minor. The game is so damn fun, I don't really care. I think I may like it better than the arcade version

[TOYPIGG]

If you want homebrew port of space duel for 7800 it's still available at atariage store

Edited December 28, 2017 by TOYPIGG

[gambler172]

Yes,the 7800 version is really great....

[Skippy B. Coyote]

On a technical level I think the NES version is superior, but I've always liked the 7800 version best because of how nicely the targeting reticle lights up when you pass over a sol tower. I've got the locations of all of them memorized but it's still helpful to have an easy visual indicator to pinpoint their locations.

[+HammR25]

Space Duel for your emulator can be found here.

 

I loved 7800 Xevious back in the day. Was annoyed that the gun and bombs were on the same button because I never bothered to read the manual. Didn't find out the difficulty switch changed that until I started posting here.

[Inky]

One thing I was curious about.. Every now and then - sometimes more now than then - my copy of Xevious has a blinking red box where an explosion happens. Anyone else see this?