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13-525: In Fighter & Attacker , players control one of sixteen different aircraft as they must complete each of the game's eight areas. Each aircraft are based on real-world fighter jets, including the F/A-18E , F-15J , F-117A , and F-14D . They also have their own unique weapon loadout and playstyles; some are slower but fire more destructive shots, while other are much faster but fire weaker shots. There are no power-ups or screen-clearing bombs. Players also have

26-465: A heath meter that can sustain three hits before being destroyed. Similar to the Xevious series, the player can launch powerful bombs towards ground targets to destroy them. Some enemies will leave behind captured prisoners when destroyed, which can be picked up for additional points. A boss must be defeated at the end of each level, which increase in difficulty and have more sporadic movement patterns as

39-488: Is Japan's third largest video game company and the seventh in the world by revenue, as well as the largest toy company in the world by 2017. Since 1990, Bandai Namco has produced many compilations containing their games, notably their arcade titles from the 1970s and 1980s, for various home video game systems, handhelds, personal computers and arcade boards. Out of these compilations, the Namco Museum series has been

52-640: Is a Japanese holdings company that specializes in video games , toys, arcades , anime and amusement parks , and is headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo . They were formed after the merge of Namco and Bandai on 29 September 2005, with both companies' assets being merged into a single corporate entity. The video game branch of the company is Bandai Namco Entertainment , producing games for home consoles, arcade hardware and mobile phones. Bandai Namco creates several highly successful video game franchises, including Tekken , Pac-Man , Gundam and Tales , as

65-580: Is a franchise of shoot 'em up video games published by Bandai Namco Entertainment , formerly Namco . Xevious , the first title in the franchise, was released for arcades in January ;1983 in Japan and a month later in North America by Atari, Inc . It was created by Masanobu Endō , who also designed The Tower of Druaga . The game has received many sequels, spin-offs, and re-imaginings,

78-460: The Solvalou throughout a series of levels, shooting at enemies and avoiding their projectiles. The Solvalou has two weapons, an air zapper that destroys air-based enemies and a blaster bomb that destroys ground-based enemies. Later games introduce mechanics such as additional playable ships, power-ups, protective shields, and two-player co-operative play. Critics have labeled Xevious as one of

91-488: The most important games of its kind. It is one of the first vertically scrolling shooters and among the first video games to implement bosses , pre-rendered visuals, and a cohesive world and storyline. Xevious inspired games such as Gradius , TwinBee , Zanac , and RayForce . It has had an influence on game designers such as Satoshi Tajiri and musicians like Haruomi Hosono . List of Bandai Namco video game compilations Bandai Namco Holdings

104-404: The most recent being Xevious Resurrection in 2009. Xevious games have been ported to many platforms and compiled into several Namco compilations . The franchise contains twelve games—seven mainline entries and five spin-offs— soundtrack albums , pachinko machines, and an animated feature film produced by Groove Corporation. Gameplay in the series consists of controlling a spaceship named

117-552: The player progresses. Known as F/A in Japan, Fighter & Attacker was programmed for the Namco NA-1 arcade board, which supported titles such as Tinkle Pit and Cosmo Gang the Puzzle . The game is notable for its soundtrack, which was composed jointly by Shinji Hosoe and Takayuki Aihara. During production, Namco executives requested that the music be diverse and not sound similar to that in other games of its kind from

130-483: The time. Hosoe went with a mixture of techno and rave, which for the genre was unheard of during its release. Namco demonstrated Fighter & Attacker at the 1992 Amusement Machine Show exposition in Japan, shown alongside Final Lap 3 and Bubble Trouble: Golly! Ghost 2 . It was published in both Japan and North America in October of that year. The arcade magazine Game Machine claims that Fighter & Attacker

143-474: Was the seventh most-popular arcade game of November 1992 in Japan. Retro Gamer compared its gameplay to Namco's own Xevious for its usage of air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, and believed fans of the 1942 and Aero Fighters series would likely be invested in it. The magazine felt overall that Fighter & Attacker was a decent scrolling shooter, but its "bland" graphical style and setting caused it to be overshadowed by other similar games, and

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156-450: Was too high. Though he enjoyed its techno-infused soundtrack, Foster stated that Fighter & Attacker was missing the same level of polish that other military-themed shooters had, such as Aero Fighters . This Bandai Namco -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This scrolling shooter article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of Xevious media Xevious

169-418: Was unsurprised at the lack of a home conversion. Hardcore Gaming 101 writer Neil Foster agreed, believing the game's main fault lied in its lack of a hook: "The no-frills militant visuals lacks a fantastical and inviting thrill, leaving this fighter stuck on the runway." Foster believed the game was graphically behind from other shooters, with uninteresting and generic level environments, and that its difficulty

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