It's dangerous, it's devious, it's Xevious. Never before has a tag line so perfectly summed up a video game. Xevious was one of the first (if not the first) in a new genre of arcade games: the scrolling shooter. While we make take such games for granted today, back in 1982 such a concept was unheard of. Most games of the time had only one non-scrolling screen, which seriously limited their creativity. One screen shooters like Galaga and Galaxian were ok, but players hungered for something different. Xevious satisfied that hunger.