The popularity of retrogaming is unquestionable. Between the remakes of old franchises and the repackaging of old arcade games into "best of" console compilations, it's obvious that today's game ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Arcade Archives: Gradius III Gradius III is a scrolling shooter game released by Konami in 1989. The story of Planet Gradius has transformed from legend to ...

First of all, the game contains Gradius, Gradius 2: Gofer No Yabou, Gradius 3 (arcade), Gradius 4, and Gradius Gaiden which is a game that never was released outside of Japan. There's also a Gallery ...

We’ve gotten various versions of Gradius on the Nintendo Switch. These include the NES port of the game via Nintendo Switch Online and VS. Gradius, an arcade port of the NES version. However, the ...

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For those that don’t know: Gradius III is a scrolling shooter released by Konami back in 1989, but only in Japan and via arcade. The third game in the legendary series, it was eventually ported to ...

In case it helps anybody with context, the SNES has great video and audio hardware for its era, but a really regressive CPU — even calling it 16-bit is being charitable; it has an 8-bit data bus and ...

Shoot ’em ups were one of the first video game sensations to sweep through arcades. The novelist Martin Amis became so obsessed with 1978’s Space Invaders he wrote an entire guide/appreciation of ...

Publisher Konami has certainly made some missteps in preserving and re-releasing its older games. Silent Hill and Metal Gear “HD” collections of old have soured some players on Konami’s attempts to ...

The Gofer special forces are heading toward planet Gradius, and it’s up to the player to pilot the Vic Viper to victory against them in the PS4 port of Gradius II. 1-2 players can tackle the task of ...