Xevious (ゼビウス, Zebiusu?) is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1983 (but copyrighted as 1982). It runs on Namco Galaga hardware, and was designed by Masanobu Endō (who later created The Tower of Druaga). In North America, the game was manufactured and distributed by Atari, Inc.. In Brazil, the arcade cabinet was printed with the name of "COLUMBIA" for the game, while the software still showed the original title of "Xevious".[citation needed]