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Three decades ago, back when Konami released video games, Japanese arcade goers were graced with one outstanding space shooter. I was so much better at Gradius back then. Collecting pods, choosing ...

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Across the galaxy, there exists a distant planet known as Gradius. Gradius' peaceful existence has been brought to an end by an intense space invasion by a race known as the Bacterion. To save the ...

Konami’s classic arcade-turned-NES shooter Gradius owed plenty to older shooters like Defender and Scramble, but Gradius brought to the table a unique weapon-upgrade system that would be a defining ...

an arcade port of the NES version. However, the actual arcade version has yet to be released on the platform. However, this is all about to change, as Arcade Archives Gradius is set to release on ...

The original Gradius arcade release was one of the first truly great side-scrolling shooters and, along with R-Type, spawned a legion of copycat video games back in the 80s and 90s. The Gradius titles ...

Gradius III was one of Konami's first releases for the SNES and took the popular shooter franchise into the 16-bit realm for the first time. As is the case with many Konami games, it featured an ...

The Vic Viper takes flight again today, as the NES edition of Konami’s arcade shoot-’em-up Gradius has appeared on the Wii’s Virtual Console. Acting as the game’s wingmen are a pair of TurboGrafx-16 ...

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, rest in peace. Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a producer credited with implementing the fabled “Konami Code” that gave players godlike cheats in Contra, Gradius, ...