Xanthius (1987)

Xanthius is an arcade shoot-em-up released in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It was published by Players Software. The game was developed by Andy Severn, who handled the coding, and Martin Severn, who created the in-game graphics and the load screen. The inlay and poster art were designed by Peter Austin.

The game is a single-player arcade shooter. It supports control via Kempston or Interface 2 joysticks.

The cassette cost £1.99.

The game holds an average magazine score of 65% based on two reviews. Crash awarded it 60%, while Your Sinclair gave it a 7/10 rating.

Xanthius was quite common in Russia. Numerous TR-DOS disk adaptations were produced, and cracked cassette versions were released by groups such as MAC'89. Cheat codes for the game appeared in the magazine Shocker.