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Gradius

Arcade

May 29, 1985

Community Rating: 3.60
Total Votes: 62

3.6

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

Gradius

ColecoVision

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

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

Gradius

Nintendo Entertainment System

April 25, 1986

Community Rating: 4.03
Total Votes: 135

4.0

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

Sharp X68000

March 28, 1987

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 12

4.2

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

Gradius

Nintendo Game & Watch

1989

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 6

3.7

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

Gradius

Commodore 64

1986

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 3

4.5

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

Microsoft MSX

1986

Community Rating: 3.76
Total Votes: 21

3.8

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

Gradius

NEC TurboGrafx-16

November 15, 1991

Community Rating: 3.56
Total Votes: 52

3.6

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

Gradius

Sharp X1

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

November 19, 1985

Community Rating: 3.40
Total Votes: 5

3.4

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

Gradius II: GOFER no Yabō

Sharp X68000

1988

Community Rating: 4.06
Total Votes: 8

4.1

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

Gradius Galaxies

Nintendo Game Boy Advance

November 9, 2001

Community Rating: 3.85
Total Votes: 39

3.9

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

December 18, 1992

Community Rating: 3.68
Total Votes: 53

3.7

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

Gradius III and IV

Sony Playstation 2

April 13, 2000

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 40

4.0

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

Gradius 2

Microsoft MSX

1987

Community Rating: 4.26
Total Votes: 19

4.3

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

Gradius Collection

Sony PSP

June 6, 2006

Community Rating: 4.06
Total Votes: 32

4.1

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

Gradius IV: Fukkatsu

Arcade

February 4, 1999

Community Rating: 3.73
Total Votes: 52

3.7

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

Gradius II: The Return of the Hero

Nintendo Game Boy Color

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 II

Nintendo Entertainment System

December 16, 1988

Community Rating: 4.24
Total Votes: 48

4.2

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

August 9, 1991

Community Rating: 3.64
Total Votes: 51

3.6

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

Gradius III

Arcade

1989

Community Rating: 3.55
Total Votes: 76

3.6

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

Gradius Deluxe Pack

Windows

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 ReBirth

Nintendo Wii

March 9, 2009

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 29

3.5

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

Gradius III

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

December 21, 1990

Community Rating: 3.81
Total Votes: 136

3.8

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

Gradius (PlayChoice-10)

Arcade

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 Deluxe Pack

Sony Playstation

March 29, 1996

Community Rating: 4.21
Total Votes: 17

4.2

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

Gradius Gaiden

Sony Playstation

August 28, 1997

Community Rating: 4.18
Total Votes: 37

4.2

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

Gradius Deluxe Pack

Sega Saturn

March 29, 1996

Community Rating: 4.06
Total Votes: 24

4.1

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

Gradius V

Sony Playstation 2

September 14, 2004

Community Rating: 4.16
Total Votes: 95

4.2

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

Gradius ArchiMENdes Hen

Nintendo Entertainment System

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 III Legends

Microsoft MSX2+

2001

Community Rating: 3.38
Total Votes: 4

3.4

Nemesis '94 Gradius 2

Sharp X68000

1994

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 6

3.4

A 1994 update to the Gradius 2\Nemesis SHMUP.

Vulcan Venture

Arcade

1988

Community Rating: 3.73
Total Votes: 62

3.7

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

Vs. Gradius

Arcade

1986

Community Rating: 3.82
Total Votes: 28

3.8

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

Nemesis '93 Gradius 2

Sharp X68000

1993

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

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

Nemesis

Arcade

1985

Community Rating: 3.81
Total Votes: 72

3.8

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

Nemesis

Sega Master System

1987

Community Rating: 2.62
Total Votes: 8

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

1987

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 7

3.5

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

Chameleon 24

Arcade

2002

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 5

4.1

Chameleon 24 is a piece of hardware made by Amusement Game and released in 2002. It is a multi-game Arcade machine,...

Galt-Rio

NEC PC-9801

1995

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 2

2.0

A side scrolling shoot'em up with a robot. Much like Nemesis, Gradius, Salamander, etc. when a wave of aliens or a...

Salamander Portable

Sony PSP

January 25, 2007

Community Rating: 4.08
Total Votes: 19

4.1

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

Varia

Windows

2007

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Varia is a futuristic vertically-scrolling shooter created for the SHMUP-DEV Competition 2k7 Round 2. Entries...

U.N. Squadron

Atari ST

1990

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 4

3.2

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

U.N. Squadron

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1990

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 4

4.0

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

Parodius

Sony Playstation

December 3, 1994

Community Rating: 4.08
Total Votes: 41

4.1

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

Konami GB Collection: Vol.1

Nintendo Game Boy Color

February 1, 2000

Community Rating: 4.56
Total Votes: 9

4.6

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

Darius+

Atari ST

1989

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 3

4.5

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

Garudius '95

NEC PC-9801

1995

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

At first glance, one would think that Garudius '95 is undoubtedly a part of Konami's venerated Gradius series....

R-Type

Nintendo Wii U

July 14, 2016

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

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

War of Aero: Project MEIOU

Arcade

1993

Community Rating: 2.85
Total Votes: 24

2.9

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

Nemesis (Brothers)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1999

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Not to be confused with one of the most famous shmups in Gradius, named Nemesis in Europe, Nemesis is a russian...

Rayxanber

Fujitsu FM Towns Marty

1990

Community Rating: 3.58
Total Votes: 5

3.6

Rayxanber (ライザンバー) is the name of a trilogy of scrolling shooter video games developed by Japanese software company...

Psycho-Nics Oscar

Arcade

1987

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 49

3.4

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

Fatal Craft

Watara Supervision

1992

Community Rating: 1.62
Total Votes: 5

1.6

Fatal Craft is a horizontally-scrolling shooter modeled after Konami's seminal arcade classic Gradius, right down...

Life Force

Nintendo Entertainment System

September 25, 1987

Community Rating: 4.10
Total Votes: 144

4.1

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

Salamander: Arrangement Chronicle DELTA

Nintendo Entertainment System

June 3, 2018

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 2

4.8

This is a romhack of Salamander, known as Life Force in western regions. The hack attempts not only to retrofit...

Magic Dragon

Nintendo Entertainment System

1994

Community Rating: 3.19
Total Votes: 8

3.2

Magic Dragon is an unlicensed game for the Famicom/NES that was built using the framework of R-Type. R-Type,...

Star Drifter

Windows

June 1, 2016

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Star Drifter is a super hard and hectic space shooter, inspired by classics such as R Type, Xenon, Galaxian, Moon...

Cosmic Wars

Nintendo Entertainment System

August 4, 1989

Community Rating: 3.40
Total Votes: 15

3.4

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

Wizball

Commodore Amiga

1988

Community Rating: 3.31
Total Votes: 18

3.3

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

Parodius

Nintendo Game Boy

April 5, 1991

Community Rating: 3.94
Total Votes: 39

3.9

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

Konami GB Collection Vol.3

Nintendo Game Boy

February 19, 1998

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 4

3.2

This follow-up to Konami GB Collection Vol. 2 contains: • Gradius II • Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge • Yie...

Parodius Da! Shinwa Kara Owarai e

NEC TurboGrafx-16

February 21, 1992

Community Rating: 3.27
Total Votes: 40

3.3

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

Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits

Nintendo DS

March 15, 2007

Community Rating: 3.59
Total Votes: 11

3.6

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

Parodius DA!

Arcade

April 25, 1990

Community Rating: 4.01
Total Votes: 84

4.0

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

Nucleus

Commodore Amiga

1990

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 6

3.4

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

Otomedius G

Microsoft Xbox 360

November 20, 2008

Community Rating: 3.38
Total Votes: 4

3.4

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

Lunar-C

Commodore Amiga CD32

1993

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Lunar-C is unique in that it was only released in this compilation. The backstory revolves around a giant...

Otomedius

Taito Type X

October 15, 2007

Community Rating: 3.56
Total Votes: 17

3.6

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

Wizball

Atari ST

1987

Community Rating: 2.83
Total Votes: 6

2.8

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

DreamMix TV World Fighters

Nintendo GameCube

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...

XDR: X-Dazedly-Ray

Sega Genesis

August 26, 1990

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 18

3.2

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

Darius+

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1990

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 3

3.2

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

U.N. Squadron

Commodore Amiga

1990

Community Rating: 3.15
Total Votes: 13

3.2

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

Konami Antiques: MSX Collection Vol. 1

Sony Playstation

November 20, 1997

Community Rating: 3.10
Total Votes: 10

3.1

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

Thunder Cross

Arcade

January 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.47
Total Votes: 58

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...

Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back!

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1987

Community Rating: 4.24
Total Votes: 17

4.2

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

Zybex

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1989

Community Rating: 3.80
Total Votes: 5

3.8

Zybex is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up inspired by Side Arms and Nemesis/Gradius. The players took control...

Brain

Arcade

1986

Community Rating: 3.06
Total Votes: 33

3.1

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

Parodius

Microsoft MSX

April 28, 1988

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 23

3.5

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

Parodius Portable

Sony PSP

January 25, 2007

Community Rating: 3.91
Total Votes: 23

3.9

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

Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction

Microsoft MSX

1988

Community Rating: 4.39
Total Votes: 10

4.4

Nemesis 3 (Gradius II in Japan) is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up. Shooting at certain enemies will leave a...

Wonder 3

Sony Playstation

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...

Ruzh Delta Z

Windows

May 11, 2015

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Ruzh Delta Z is a frenzied shoot-em-up which draws inspiration from classics such as Gradius, DoDonPachi, and...

Konami GB Collection Vol.1

Nintendo Game Boy

September 25, 1997

Community Rating: 3.10
Total Votes: 5

3.1

Konami GB Collection Vol. 1 is a compilation developed by TOSE and published by Konami for Game Boy and Game Boy...

Fantastic Journey

Arcade

April 26, 1994

Community Rating: 4.35
Total Votes: 62

4.4

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

1993 Space Machine

Windows

March 28, 2016

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 10

3.2

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

Salamander

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1987

Community Rating: 3.36
Total Votes: 7

3.4

Salamander (沙羅曼蛇 / サラマンダ Saramanda), retitled Life Force (ライフフォース Raifu Fōsu) in North America and in the Japanese...

Force Gear

NEC TurboGrafx-CD

1994

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Military weapons development on satellite orbit. A new preliminary space fighter based on the Gradius army on...

Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

December 15, 1995

Community Rating: 4.09
Total Votes: 39

4.1

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

Z-Exemplar

Windows

November 25, 2016

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

Z-Exemplar is a side-scrolling shooter in the tradition of R-Type, Gradius, Nemesis and other classic arcade games...

Konami GB Collection: Vol.4

Nintendo Game Boy Color

July 1, 2000

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 9

3.8

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

Salamander 2

Arcade

January 26, 1996

Community Rating: 3.76
Total Votes: 39

3.8

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

Storm Assault

Windows

2007

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 1

4.5

A nice Japanese horizontal space shooter. Storm Assault is a horizontal shooter consisting of several boss fights,...

Arcade Gears Vol. 3: Wonder 3

Sega Saturn

March 5, 1998

Community Rating: 3.81
Total Votes: 13

3.8

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

Border Down

Arcade

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...

Cobra Triangle

Nintendo Entertainment System

July 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.76
Total Votes: 71

3.8

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

Thunder Force II

Sharp X68000

October 15, 1988

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 6

3.4

Thunder Force II is both a side scrolling and top down shooter. In the game you control a ship. In some stages the...

Darius

Sharp X68000

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

This is a homebrew implementation of Darius for the X68000. The plot of Darius involves the two heroes Proco...

Konami Antiques: MSX Collection Vol. 3

Sony Playstation

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...

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