final follow-up was released in 2009, Xevious Resurrection, exclusively as part of the compilation title Namco Museum Essentials, which includes two-player simultaneous co-op alongside a number of other features. Music and books In 1991, a three-part Xevious novel was published, titled Fardraut - the books documented the lore of the Xevious video game series, including its characters, backstory and events. The books would be republished fifteen years later in 2005. A 2002 CGI film adaptation was released in Japan, produced during a collaboration between Namco and Japanese company Groove Corporation. A Xevious-themed soundtrack album was produced by Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1984, titled Video Game Music. Compiled with music from other Namco video games, such as Mappy and Pole Position, it is credited as the first video game soundtrack album. Xevious would also spawn the first gameplay recording for a video game and the first television commercial for an arcade game. Music from the game was used during the video game-themed television series Starcade. Notes References External links 1982 video games Amstrad CPC games Arcade video games Atari arcade games Atari 7800 games Atari ST games Cancelled Atari 2600 games Cancelled Atari 5200 games Commodore 64 games Famicom Disk System games FM-7 games Game Boy Advance games Mobile games Namco arcade games Nintendo 3DS eShop games Nintendo Entertainment System games Nintendo Vs. Series games Sharp X1 games X68000 games TurboGrafx-16 games U.S. Gold games Video game franchises Virtual Console games Virtual Console games for Wii U Xbox 360 Live Arcade games ZX Spectrum games Video games developed in Japan Video games scored by Yuriko Keino Vertically-oriented video games