Xevious - Namco's 1980's classic has now arrived on the Sega Mega Drive

Well here's another great summer news story for you all, as Namco's influential 1980's vertical shooter, Xevious, has been ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis by SirVH, delivering a faithful, line-by-line recreation of the original arcade code on 16-bit hardware. The release features authentic enemy AI, dual-weapon combat against ground and air targets, and 4-channel PCM sound, supporting both original hardware and modern emulators. To coincide with this news, provided below is the latest footage from this port.

Mappy - Bally Midway & Namco's Arcade mouse game has arrived on the Amiga via JOTD

I had a feeling it wouldn't be too long for another JOTD announcement, and thus here we are with a new Arcade to Amiga port that's been released called 'Mappy'. A side-scrolling platformer that was developed by Namco for the Japanese market in March 1983, and published in North America by Bally Midway in April of the same year. A game that originally ran on a modified Namco Super Pac-Man hardware to support horizontal scrolling.

Zedex Tanks - De-make of Battle City released for the ZX Spectrum by Epsilon Games

Another great ZX Spectrum news story for you all, as if you remember playing the 1985 game of Battle City by Namco for the NES, then as of just recently you can play Epsilon Games newest of creations called 'Zedex Tanks'. As in the words of the team behind the game "This game for classic ZX Spectrum models is the most exact functional de-make of Battle City, developed in 1985 for NES by Namco." To coincide with this news, Saberman was also kind enough to do a video showing the game in action.

Pole Position - Arcade conversion to the Atari ST is looking pretty damn sweet

During the late 80's Namco released a brilliant arcade racing game called Pole Position, which was designed by Tōru Iwatani, designer of Pac-Man, ending up as one of the most popular arcade racing games of 1982-3. A game which also appeared on multiple systems including the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64/128, Commodore VIC-20, Intellivision, Vectrex, MS-DOS, TI-99/4A and Sinclair ZX Spectrum is about to be shown off as a very high grade conversion and on the Atari ST!

Jr. Pac-Man - Bally Midway's Arcade game is coming to the Intellivision

Lots of gaming news to get through today and the first one is a well known classic Arcade game called ' Jr.Pac-Man ', which is coming to the Intellivision this year by the publishers Intellivision Revolution. This game was first released by Bally Midway way back in 1983 and is based on a child like version of Pac-Man that also has to eat dots in a maze style gaming screen while also avoiding the ghosts. The similarities end there however, as the game features side-scrolling mazes, a lack of exits, and moving prizes that not only destroy energisers but also create large dots that slow the players' movement.

Bosconian - 1980's multi-directional scrolling shooter gets an Atari 8bit port

It's the Atari's time to shine as another game has been given the port treatment and it's the Arcade game ' Bosconian ' developed by Namco all the way back in 1981. Currently available as a work in progress for the Atari 8bit by shanti77. Bosconian is a multi-directional scrolling shooter arcade game with similarities to Star Control, it requires you as the space ship pilot to score as many points as possible by destroying enemy missiles and bases while also avoiding asteroids, mines and other such ship destroying objects.