Xevious76 Movie Productions

Background: The Xevious76 Movie Productions Company was an independent production company until being acquired by Alliance Pacific Incorporated in 1994. Despite of being an indipendent company, had a lot of subsidiaries like Outer World Entertainment and Sunrise Diamond Pictures. The company almost declared bankruptcy in 1993 due to some formats failure and was put on a hiatus state until the moment of the inglobation in the Alliance Pacific Incorporated. After a 15 year dissapearence, the company started making a new movie, The Endless Drift: Racing from 1993 to 2007, and established a new sound system, Driftoaural Sound System.

1st logo:

(1987 - 1993)

Xevious 76 Movie Productions (1987)

Nickname: Boxes everywhere, X76, Namco boxes.

Logo: From black, the camera zooms out revealing a scene full of floating 3D black boxes. Then the camera floats between the boxes, revealing their back, that has the "X76" logo written in a Namco-ish font. The camera zooms in on a box of them until the logo is on full screen. After that we see shrinking the words:

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Xevious 76 Movie Productions

The logo goes black after a few moments.

FX: The 3D animation of the boxes and the tagline shrinking.

Cheesy factor: Primitive but somehow clear 80s CGI.

Music: We start with a deep synth drone while the camera zooms out revealing the boxes, to continue with an 8 note synth-chime tune and culminate with a "whoosh" sound when the tagline shrinks.

Availability: Seen on all the company movie releases from 1987 to 1993.

Trivia: The fonts used for the X76 logo is clearly a redention of the Namco logo font. The company was sued by the same Namco for this in November 1987, being accused of copyright breaking.

Scare factor: Medium due to the dark nature of the logo and the first part of the music.

2nd Logo:

(2009-)

TBA