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Gradius

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

April 25, 1986

Community Rating: 3.92
Total Votes: 173

3.9

It's a Duel to the Death With the Evil Bacterions! You are the last hope of the gentle people of Gradius. You've...

Gradius

NEC TurboGrafx-16

Released

November 15, 1991

Community Rating: 3.70
Total Votes: 65

3.7

The people of Gradius are in trouble. The ameoboid Bacterions have launched an all out attack against the planet,...

Gradius

Arcade

Released

May 29, 1985

Community Rating: 3.69
Total Votes: 75

3.7

One of the defining characteristics of the Gradius series is the use of a "power meter." The power meter is powered...

Gradius

Microsoft MSX

1986

Community Rating: 3.69
Total Votes: 30

3.7

The people of Gradius are in trouble. The ameoboid Bacterions have launched an all out attack against the planet,...

Gradius

Sharp X68000

Released

March 28, 1987

Community Rating: 4.23
Total Votes: 13

4.2

The people of Gradius are in trouble. The ameoboid Bacterions have launched an all out attack against the planet,...

Gradius

ColecoVision

Community Rating: 4.33
Total Votes: 3

4.3

The planet Gradius, a peaceful Earth-like world, is now under an all-out space attack from its old enemies, beings...

Gradius

Sharp X1

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

The people of Gradius are in trouble. The ameoboid Bacterions have launched an all out attack against the planet,...

Gradius

NEC PC-8801

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.33
Total Votes: 6

3.3

The people of Gradius are in trouble. The ameoboid Bacterions have launched an all out attack against the planet,...

Gradius

Nintendo Game & Watch

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.64
Total Votes: 7

3.6

Gradius is a handheld electronic game developed by Konami, based on the Nintendo video game of the same name.

Gradius

Commodore 64

Released

1986

Community Rating: 4.06
Total Votes: 8

4.1

You are the last hope of the gentle people of Gradius. You've just lifted off to confront the all-out attack of the...

Gradius III

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

December 21, 1990

Community Rating: 3.82
Total Votes: 166

3.8

The gentle Gradians thought they were cured of Bacterion's contemptible curse after a generation of germ-free...

Gradius Collection

Sony PSP

Released

June 6, 2006

Community Rating: 4.06
Total Votes: 35

4.1

Gradius Collection is a compilation of five beloved games in the Gradius series available for the first time on the...

Gradius III and IV

Sony Playstation 2

Released

April 13, 2000

Community Rating: 3.96
Total Votes: 49

4.0

This is a compilation containing two side scrolling shooters from Konami: Gradius III Gradius IV Both games...

Gradius Galaxies

Nintendo Game Boy Advance

Released

November 9, 2001

Community Rating: 3.68
Total Votes: 45

3.7

Gradius Galaxies' side-scrolling action hearkens back to the early days of arcade shoot-'em-ups — wave after wave...

Gradius II: Gofer no Yabou

NEC TurboGrafx-CD

Released

December 18, 1992

Community Rating: 3.70
Total Votes: 64

3.7

This shooter is the sequel to the seminal masterpiece, GRADIUS. Two years after its last epic battle, the GRADIUS...

Gradius IV: Fukkatsu

Arcade

Released

February 4, 1999

Community Rating: 3.73
Total Votes: 62

3.7

Gradius IV is the fourth game in Konami's long-running Gradius space shooter series. As with other Gradius titles,...

Gradius 2

Microsoft MSX

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.30
Total Votes: 22

4.3

In the year 6664 Dr. Venom, the director of the Space Science Agency, was exiled to the planet Sard for his...

Gradius II: GOFER no Yabō

Sharp X68000

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 11

4.0

Gradius II is a sequel to Gradius and Life Force, and is a horizontal space shooter composed of seven levels. Like...

Gradius II

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

December 16, 1988

Community Rating: 4.06
Total Votes: 64

4.1

The player returns as the role of the pilot of the Vic Viper spaceship to battle the second onslaughts of the...

Gradius: The Interstellar Assault

Nintendo Game Boy

Released

August 9, 1991

Community Rating: 3.68
Total Votes: 57

3.7

YOU'RE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE GALAXY'S HOTTEST COOKOUT! Smell the challenge, as the flames of destruction...

Gradius II: The Return of the Hero

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Released

July 1, 2000

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

A colorized re-release of the Game Boy classic. This Game Boy Color version of the game was originally released as...

Gradius III

Arcade

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.58
Total Votes: 92

3.6

In the darkest reaches of infinite space, pure evil lies in wait ... The Dark Forces led by the god of destruction,...

Gradius V

Sony Playstation 2

Released

September 14, 2004

Community Rating: 4.19
Total Votes: 118

4.2

Long ago, a destructive life form, born from the dark depths of space, was annihilated in an arduous battle with...

Gradius ReBirth

Nintendo Wii

Released

March 9, 2009

Community Rating: 3.53
Total Votes: 36

3.5

Blast your way through levels filled with alien spaceships and otherworldly creatures in this retro side-scrolling...

Gradius Gaiden

Sony Playstation

Released

August 28, 1997

Community Rating: 4.08
Total Votes: 44

4.1

The setting is between Gradius III and Gradius IV. During the " Third Bacterian War ", the planet Gradius...

Gradius Deluxe Pack

Sony Playstation

Released

March 29, 1996

Community Rating: 4.14
Total Votes: 18

4.1

This pack contains both the arcade classics Gradius I and II, ported to Windows 95, Sony Playstation and Sega...

Gradius Deluxe Pack

Sega Saturn

Released

March 29, 1996

Community Rating: 4.02
Total Votes: 30

4.0

Gradius Deluxe Pack is a compilation of both Gradius and Gradius II - two arcade shoot-'em-ups developed and...

Gradius Deluxe Pack

Windows

Released

February 21, 1997

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 4

3.9

Gradius Deluxe Pack is a 1996 video game compilation developed and published by Konami. It was originally released...

Gradius ArchiMENdes Hen

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

June 4, 2025

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 10

4.1

Gradius was no stranger to ports and versions of the game, so why would it be weird if Konami featured noodles...

Gradius (PlayChoice-10)

Arcade

Released

1986

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 1

2.5

The people of Gradius are in trouble. The ameoboid Bacterions have launched an all out attack against the planet,...

Gradius III Legends

Microsoft MSX2+

Homebrew

2001

Community Rating: 3.38
Total Votes: 4

3.4

Gradius: MSX Version

Nintendo Entertainment System

ROM Hack

July 17, 2012

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Here is a graphics hack which converts all the graphics to appear as their MSX version counterparts.

Nemesis

Arcade

Released

February 2, 1985

Community Rating: 3.80
Total Votes: 85

3.8

The player controls the trans-dimensional spaceship Vic Viper, and must battle waves of enemies through various...

Vs. Gradius

Arcade

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.81
Total Votes: 34

3.8

Vs. Gradius was developed by Konami and then licensed to Nintendo in 1986. Nintendo released Vs. Gradius for its...

Vulcan Venture

Arcade

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.73
Total Votes: 79

3.7

The player returns as the role of the pilot of the Vic Viper spaceship to battle the second onslaughts of the...

Nemesis '93 Gradius 2

Sharp X68000

Released

1993

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

A 1993 update to Gradius 2\Nemesis shoot'em up.

Nemesis '94 Gradius 2

Sharp X68000

Homebrew

1994

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 6

3.4

A 1994 update to the Gradius 2\Nemesis SHMUP.

Arcade Archives GRADIUS II

Nintendo Switch

Released

November 12, 2020

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Battle resumes! Shatter GOFER's ambitions!! 'GRADIUS II' is a shooting game released by KONAMI in 1988. Players...

Arcade Archives GRADIUS III

Nintendo Switch

December 24, 2020

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Myth of the mighty. "GRADIUS III" is a scrolling shooter game released by KONAMI in 1989. The story of Planet...

Nemesis

Sega Master System

Unlicensed

1987

Community Rating: 2.65
Total Votes: 10

2.6

Nemesis for the Sega Master System is an MSX port, which was converted without a license and released in South...

Nemesis 2

Sega Master System

Unlicensed

1987

Community Rating: 3.39
Total Votes: 9

3.4

This version is also based on the original MSX1 classic. For some reason the game always run in "Penguin mode"...

Xexyz

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

August 26, 1988

Community Rating: 3.79
Total Votes: 60

3.8

The game centers around the main character of Apollo (no relation to the Greek sun god) who progresses through the...

Life Force

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

September 25, 1987

Community Rating: 4.07
Total Votes: 181

4.1

You've saved the innocent people of Gradius from the vile Bacterions. But now an even deadlier plague has slimed...

Cobra Triangle

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

July 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.61
Total Votes: 89

3.6

There are 25 stages in the game, including bonus stages. Each series of five generally contains one of each type of...

Destination Earthstar

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

February 1, 1990

Community Rating: 2.81
Total Votes: 35

2.8

The view of the game is from the cockpit of a spacecraft. The goal of the game is to explore a grid which is...

SaGa Frontier

Sony Playstation

Released

March 6, 1998

Community Rating: 3.59
Total Votes: 54

3.6

SaGa Frontier is a Sony PlayStation role-playing game by Square, released in Japan on July 11, 1997. The game was...

Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits

Nintendo DS

Released

March 15, 2007

Community Rating: 3.78
Total Votes: 16

3.8

Konami Classics Series Arcade Hits is a compilation of 15 games from the early days of Konami. The games...

Chaos Field

Nintendo GameCube

Released

December 20, 2005

Community Rating: 4.09
Total Votes: 45

4.1

Chaos Field is a top-down space shooter similar in concept to the Gradius series, or Ikaruga. You control one of...

Konami GB Collection: Vol.1

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Released

February 1, 2000

Community Rating: 4.42
Total Votes: 12

4.4

Enjoy these classic Konami games on GameBoy. 4 great games to choose from! More Konami classic games coming...

Otomedius Excellent

Microsoft Xbox 360

Released

November 1, 2011

Community Rating: 3.08
Total Votes: 7

3.1

Otomedius Excellent is an Xbox 360 game and the sequel to the 2007 arcade game Otomedius by Konami, which is a...

U.N. Squadron

Commodore Amiga

Released

1990

Community Rating: 3.29
Total Votes: 14

3.3

Side-scrolling shoot-em-up, in a similar style to such games as Gradius, R-Type and Scramble. The aim is to wipe...

Darius+

Commodore Amiga

Released

1989

Community Rating: 2.91
Total Votes: 11

2.9

Darius was Taito's effort to compete in the arcades against the likes of R-Type and Gradius. Technically...

Parodius

Sony Playstation

Released

December 3, 1994

Community Rating: 3.95
Total Votes: 45

4.0

Gameplay is very similar to the Gradius series, with a few differences. Parodius retains the selectability of...

Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

December 15, 1995

Community Rating: 3.96
Total Votes: 51

4.0

Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius (Chatty Parodius), is the fourth game in a series of parody shooters produced by Konami....

Chaos Field

Sega Dreamcast

Released

December 16, 2004

Community Rating: 3.82
Total Votes: 45

3.8

Chaos Field is a top-down space shooter similar in concept to the Gradius series, or Ikaruga. You control one of...

Parodius Da! Shinwa Kara Owarai e

NEC TurboGrafx-16

Released

February 21, 1992

Community Rating: 3.45
Total Votes: 49

3.4

Konami's imaginative parody on the Gradius series. It plays just like Gradius, with the same power-up system, but...

Salamander Portable

Sony PSP

Released

January 25, 2007

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 21

4.1

Salamander Portable is a compilation that contains ports of five arcade shooters from Konami: - Life Force...

Wizball

Commodore Amiga

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.38
Total Votes: 21

3.4

Wizball is a scrolling shooter in similar vein to Gradius with an additional collection dynamic. It is a...

Sexy Parodius

Sony Playstation

Released

November 1, 1996

Community Rating: 4.04
Total Votes: 37

4.0

Sexy Parodius (セクシーパロディウス Sekushī Parodiusu?) is a scrolling shooter arcade game. It is the fifth installment of...

Sirius

Atari 7800

Unreleased

1990

Community Rating: 1.61
Total Votes: 9

1.6

Sirius is a long lost unreleased prototype developed by Tynesoft for the Atari 7800, possibly a port of the 1990...

Salamander

NEC TurboGrafx-16

Released

December 6, 1991

Community Rating: 3.89
Total Votes: 52

3.9

You've saved the innocent people of Gradius from the vile Bacterions. But now an even deadlier plague has slimed...

Cosmic Wars

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

August 4, 1989

Community Rating: 3.31
Total Votes: 18

3.3

Cosmic Wars takes you back to the Gradius universe as the 650-year long alliance between the Gradius empire and the...

Parodius

Nintendo Game Boy

Released

April 5, 1991

Community Rating: 3.95
Total Votes: 42

4.0

This is mostly the parody of Gradius (Nemesis on some systems), with some flavor from other shoot-em-ups, like...

Otomedius G

Microsoft Xbox 360

Released

November 20, 2008

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 6

3.2

Otomedius (オトメディウス Otomediusu) is a side scrolling shooter by Konami which featured personification of space...

Thunder Cross

Arcade

Released

January 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.52
Total Votes: 76

3.5

Thunder Cross (サンダークロス) is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Konami in 1988. Taking...

Xexex

Arcade

Released

January 1, 1991

Community Rating: 3.77
Total Votes: 77

3.8

Xexex is a 2D side scrolling shoot'em up, similar to Gradius or R-type. The game also uses the "tentacle mechanics"...

Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius: Forever With Me

Sony Playstation

Released

December 20, 1996

Community Rating: 4.60
Total Votes: 10

4.6

This game is the fourth game in the series of parody shooters produced by Konami and was released only in Japan....

Konami Antiques: MSX Collection Vol. 1

Sony Playstation

Released

November 20, 1997

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 11

3.0

This game is the first volume of a series of compilations of MSX computer games released by Konami only in Japan....

Konami Antiques: MSX Collection Vol. 2

Sony Playstation

Released

January 22, 1998

Community Rating: 3.06
Total Votes: 8

3.1

This game is the second volume of a series of compilations of MSX computer games released by Konami only in Japan....

Konami Antiques: MSX Collection Vol. 3

Sony Playstation

Released

March 19, 1998

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 5

3.5

This game is the third and last volume of a series of compilations of MSX computer games released by Konami only in...

Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius: Forever With Me

Sega Saturn

Released

December 13, 1996

Community Rating: 3.82
Total Votes: 18

3.8

This game is the fourth game in the series of parody shooters produced by Konami and was released only in Japan....

Parodius Portable

Sony PSP

Released

January 25, 2007

Community Rating: 3.92
Total Votes: 23

3.9

Parodius Portable is a collection of several games from the Parodius series released exclusively in Japan for the...

Salamander 2

Arcade

Released

January 26, 1996

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 45

3.8

Like the original Salamander, and as opposed to the Life Force releases, Salamander 2 abandons the selection-bar...

Darius Plus

NEC TurboGrafx-16

Released

September 21, 1990

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 56

3.5

Darius Plus was released in Japan on September 21, 1990 for the PC Engine, and was developed by Bits Laboratory and...

DreamMix TV World Fighters

Nintendo GameCube

Released

December 18, 2003

Community Rating: 3.45
Total Votes: 21

3.5

A fledgling television program has been suffering from poor audience approval, and the station that carries the...

Brain

Arcade

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.05
Total Votes: 38

3.1

This is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up, in the style of Gradius. You play as a helicopter gunship, and when you...

Grind Stormer

Arcade

Released

1992

Community Rating: 3.85
Total Votes: 86

3.9

Grind Stormer and V Five. Both offers the same levels and enemies, but have a different approach to how the player...

Konami GB Collection: Vol.4

Nintendo Game Boy Color

Released

July 1, 2000

Community Rating: 3.89
Total Votes: 14

3.9

Enjoy these classic Konami games on GameBoy. 4 great games to choose from! More Konami classic games coming...

Parodius

Microsoft MSX

Released

April 28, 1988

Community Rating: 3.55
Total Votes: 28

3.6

The first title in the Parodius series, although it is often confused with its sequel Parodius! From Myth to...

XDR: X-Dazedly-Ray

Sega Genesis

Released

August 26, 1990

Community Rating: 2.95
Total Votes: 22

3.0

The warlord Guardia was banished from the planet Sephiroth, otherwise known to be a very peaceful planet. Many...

GunNail

Arcade

Released

January 1, 1993

Community Rating: 3.39
Total Votes: 47

3.4

Gunnail is a vertical space shoot'em up. It's a very standard shooter - very fast action, and many enemies to kill....

Border Down

Arcade

Released

2003

Community Rating: 4.62
Total Votes: 20

4.6

Border Down is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by G.rev and released in Japanese arcades...

Fantastic Journey

Arcade

Released

April 26, 1994

Community Rating: 4.33
Total Votes: 79

4.3

Fantastic Journey is a scrolling shooter arcade game and the third title in the Parodius series produced by Konami....

Parodius! From Myth to Laughter

Arcade

Released

April 25, 1990

Community Rating: 4.01
Total Votes: 101

4.0

Parodius Da! is a shoot'em up arcade game and is the second title in the Parodius Series produced by Konami. The...

Psycho-Nics Oscar

Arcade

Released

1987

Community Rating: 3.48
Total Votes: 66

3.5

Oscar - Psycho-Nics was produced by Data East in 1988. Psycho-Nics Oscar is a 2D platform-shooting game. The...

Solar Assault

Arcade

Released

July 1, 1997

Community Rating: 3.81
Total Votes: 13

3.8

Solar Assault was produced by Konami in 1997. Taking place roughly a decade after the Third Bacterian War, the...

Valtric

Arcade

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.03
Total Votes: 30

3.0

The player controls a hovering land vehicle in 8 directions, and is able to shoot in the direction the vehicle...

War of Aero: Project MEIOU

Arcade

Released

1993

Community Rating: 3.05
Total Votes: 30

3.0

War of Aero: Project MEIOU is a 2D vertical scrolling futuristic shoot 'em up. The player controls a spaceship and...

Overkill & Lunar-C

Commodore Amiga CD32

Released

1993

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 6

3.0

This CD contains two shoot 'em ups: Overkill (a Defender clone), and Lunar-C (a Gradius/Nemesis clone). Lunar-C is...

Sorcerian

Microsoft MSX2

Released

1991

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

Sorcerian is a side-scrolling action-RPG. The player can create up to ten characters, from whom up to four members...

1993 Space Machine

Windows

Released

March 28, 2016

Community Rating: 3.23
Total Votes: 11

3.2

Space shooters never die. 1993 is a testament to that. 1993 is a classic shoot em up celebrating games like...

Otomedius

Taito Type X

October 15, 2007

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 18

3.4

Otomedius is a side scrolling shooter by Konami which featured personification of space fighters from various...

Doremikko

Nintendo Famicom Disk System

Released

December 4, 1987

Community Rating: 2.93
Total Votes: 7

2.9

Doremikko is a music game developed by Konami for the Famicom Disk System and published in late 1987. Like a few...

Magical Chase GB: Minarai Mahoutsukai Kenja no Tani e

Nintendo Game Boy Color

August 4, 2000

Community Rating: 3.70
Total Votes: 15

3.7

Magical Chase GB: Minarai Mahoutsukai Kenja no Tani e is a port of the original Turbografix-16 release. The game's...

Nucleus

Commodore Amiga

Released

1990

Community Rating: 3.36
Total Votes: 7

3.4

Nucleus is a two dimensional side-scrolling sci-fi shoot'em up with slow-paced action. The player controls a space...

Hai no Majutsushi

Microsoft MSX2

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.17
Total Votes: 3

4.2

Hai no Majutsushi is an implementation of Mahjong tile game. The opponents in the game are characters from Konami's...

Wonder 3

Sony Playstation

Released

April 2, 1998

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 3

3.7

Wonder 3 contains three different games: Midnight Wanderers (side-scrolling action), Chariot (shoot-em-up) and...

Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back!

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.26
Total Votes: 17

4.3

Agent X II is split into three different subgames. The first level is a side scrolling shoot 'em up in a similar...

R-Type

Atari ST

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.54
Total Votes: 12

3.5

R-Type is a side scrolling shoot 'em up best known for its extremely tough and strategic gameplay. You control the...

Delvion Star Interceptor

MS-DOS

Released

1995

Community Rating: 2.83
Total Votes: 3

2.8

Delvion Star Interceptor is a classical horizontal shooter where you must guide your small spaceship thorough...

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