

Venom in Nemesis 2 and Nemesis 3 on the MSX and in ReBirth. Too bad it slows down to a crawl on a PS2. and then gets gradually sucked into a black hole.
#Gradius 2 wikipedia series#
Awesome but Impractical: The flame thrower weapon in the Nemesis series and Gradius V.Attack Its Weak Point: "Destroy the core!".Asteroid Thicket: Gradius V Stage 5 is the epitome of this.In 2 of the stages in Gradius III, they're predominant. Anime of the Game: The Salamander OVAs.Adaptation Distillation: Those who have played both the arcade and SNES versions of Gradius III agree that the latter is easier and more enjoyable.Gradius the Slot (Arcade, 2011) not a traditional shoot 'em up, but a pachislot game where doing well in the slots affects how well you do in battle.Gradius ReBirth (Wiiware, 2008, 2009 in US).Titled Gradius Advance in Europe and Gradius Generation in Japan. Gradius NEO -IMPERIAL- (2004, Japanese cellphones).Gradius NEO (2004, Japanese cellphones).
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Ported to PSP as part of Gradius Collection.Ported to PSP as part of Gradius Collection, finally giving it a proper overseas release after 9 years.Gradius Gaiden (1997, Japanese Playstation only).

Released as Nemesis II in Japan and Europe.
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Ported to Famicom, PC Engine, X68000, and Japanese cellphones.Gradius II: The Ambition of GOFER (1988, arcade not to be confused with Gradius 2).Ported to Japanese Saturn and Playstation in Konami Antiques MSX Collection.Gradius 2 (1987, MSX Nemesis 2 in Europe).Life Force (Japanese arcade version, with completely overhauled graphics and a Gradius-style power-up system).Life Force (American arcade version, with changed plot and some changed backgrounds).Ported to PSP as part of Salamander Portable.Ported as part of Salamander Deluxe Pack to the Japanese Saturn and PS.MSX port ported to Japanese Saturn and Playstation in Konami Antiques MSX Collection.Ported to NES, MSX, PC Engine, Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad, Japanese cellphones, X68000.Ported as part of ' Konami Classics to the DS.Ported as part of Gradius Deluxe Pack to the Japanese Saturn, PS, and PC.MSX port ported to Japanese Saturn and PlayStation in Konami Antiques MSX Collection.Ported to NES (which retained the Gradius name for its overseas releases), MSX, PC Engine, Japanese cellphones, PC88, X1, X68000, Spectrum (as Nemesis the Final Challenge).Also compare Otomedius, an anime parody series which has a lot of breasts and Fan Service. And pumped with enough LSD to drop an elephant. The first Gradius was released in 1985, but in a real-life Retcon, the 1981 game Scramble was declared part of the series in Gradius Galaxies.Ĭompare Parodius, which is Konami taking this series and giving it a Cute'Em Up redesign. It is because of Gradius that "Option" is often used to describe a powerup that provides the player with an Attack Drone. The traditional sequence is Speed Up, Missile, Double (a bidirectional cannon), Laser, Option, and Shield. Essentially, powerups in Gradius are currency this is in contrast to the system later used by R-Type, where there were multiple types of powerup each with a specific application other shooters would typically copy one of these two systems. The player may elect to purchase the powerup currently pointed to by the counter, which resets the counter to the beginning. Collecting tokens advances a counter along a track. destroying an entire enemy wave (or special Palette Swap enemies) drops a glowing token. The Power-Up scheme in Gradius is unusually involved, and was particularly so for its time.

there are many Gaiden Games, however, so the total game count is enormously larger than five. Its most recent installment is Gradius V for the Playstation 2. The player controls the Vic Viper, a small starfighter, and faces off against the forces of the Bacterions, and generally destroys everything.

Konami's Gradius (also called Nemesis in some incarnations) is one of the seminal side-scrolling Shoot'Em Up series.
