GRADIUS GAIDEN SHIELD OPTIONS PC

GRADIUS GAIDEN SHIELD OPTIONS PC

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.

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