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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

NEC PC-8801

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 Entertainment System

April 25, 1986

Community Rating: 3.93
Total Votes: 168

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

Sharp X68000

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

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

NEC TurboGrafx-16

November 15, 1991

Community Rating: 3.69
Total Votes: 63

3.7

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

Gradius

Arcade

May 29, 1985

Community Rating: 3.69
Total Votes: 74

3.7

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

Gradius

Commodore 64

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

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

Microsoft MSX

1986

Community Rating: 3.73
Total Votes: 29

3.7

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

Gradius 2

Microsoft MSX

1987

Community Rating: 4.38
Total Votes: 21

4.4

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: 34

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: 3.75
Total Votes: 61

3.8

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

Gradius II: GOFER no Yabō

Sharp X68000

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 III

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

December 21, 1990

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 164

3.8

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

Gradius III and IV

Sony Playstation 2

April 13, 2000

Community Rating: 3.96
Total Votes: 48

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

November 9, 2001

Community Rating: 3.68
Total Votes: 44

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

December 18, 1992

Community Rating: 3.68
Total Votes: 62

3.7

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

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: 4.07
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

August 9, 1991

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 57

3.7

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

Gradius V

Sony Playstation 2

September 14, 2004

Community Rating: 4.19
Total Votes: 113

4.2

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

Gradius III

Arcade

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 (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

Sega Saturn

March 29, 1996

Community Rating: 4.03
Total Votes: 29

4.0

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

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 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 Gaiden

Sony Playstation

August 28, 1997

Community Rating: 4.13
Total Votes: 43

4.1

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

Gradius ReBirth

Nintendo Wii

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 Deluxe Pack

Sony Playstation

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 III Legends

Microsoft MSX2+

2001

Community Rating: 3.38
Total Votes: 4

3.4

Gradius: MSX Version

Nintendo Entertainment System

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 '94 Gradius 2

Sharp X68000

1994

Community Rating: 3.42
Total Votes: 6

3.4

A 1994 update to the Gradius 2\Nemesis SHMUP.

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.

Vs. Gradius

Arcade

1986

Community Rating: 3.79
Total Votes: 33

3.8

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

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

Arcade

February 2, 1985

Community Rating: 3.81
Total Votes: 83

3.8

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

Arcade Archives GRADIUS II

Nintendo Switch

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...

Vulcan Venture

Arcade

1988

Community Rating: 3.73
Total Votes: 78

3.7

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

Nemesis

Sega Master System

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

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"...

Wizball

Atari ST

1987

Community Rating: 3.14
Total Votes: 7

3.1

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

Doremikko

Nintendo Famicom Disk System

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...

Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits

Nintendo DS

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...

R-Type

Atari ST

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...

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...

Urban Uprising: Dark New World

Windows

August 31, 2006

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Urban Uprising: Dark New World is a vertically scrolling shoot'em up. It is set in the 28th century where mankind...

Konami Antiques: MSX Collection Vol. 1

Sony Playstation

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....

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...

Otomedius G

Microsoft Xbox 360

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...

Cosmic Wars

Nintendo Entertainment System

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...

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...

Parodius Da! Shinwa Kara Owarai e

NEC TurboGrafx-16

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...

1993 Space Machine

Windows

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...

Life Force

Nintendo Entertainment System

September 25, 1987

Community Rating: 4.08
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...

Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

December 15, 1995

Community Rating: 3.98
Total Votes: 50

4.0

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

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...

XDR: X-Dazedly-Ray

Sega Genesis

August 26, 1990

Community Rating: 3.02
Total Votes: 21

3.0

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

Destination Earthstar

Nintendo Entertainment System

February 1, 1990

Community Rating: 2.85
Total Votes: 33

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...

Arcade Gears Vol. 3: Wonder 3

Sega Saturn

March 5, 1998

Community Rating: 3.77
Total Votes: 15

3.8

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

Wizball

Commodore Amiga

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...

Chodius

Nintendo Entertainment System

March 27, 1988

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Here is a graphics hack for Gradius 2 player hot-seat shooter, the hack was done by Gilbert Cheung which changes...

Thunder Cross

Arcade

January 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.52
Total Votes: 75

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...

U.N. Squadron

Atari ST

1990

Community Rating: 3.20
Total Votes: 5

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...

Varia

Windows

October 1, 2007

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

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

Galactic Wars EX

Windows

April 21, 2022

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 1

4.5

PIXEL PERFECT CO-OP RETRO ARCADE SHMUP A new arcade shoot em up developed in pure pixel art & chiptune music....

Salamander Portable

Sony PSP

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...

Cobra Triangle

Nintendo Entertainment System

July 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.66
Total Votes: 86

3.7

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

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,...

Parodius! From Myth to Laughter

Arcade

April 25, 1990

Community Rating: 4.04
Total Votes: 99

4.0

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

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...

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...

Konami GB Collection: Vol.4

Nintendo Game Boy Color

July 1, 2000

Community Rating: 3.81
Total Votes: 13

3.8

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

Fatal Craft

Watara Supervision

1992

Community Rating: 2.17
Total Votes: 6

2.2

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

Hai no Majutsushi

Microsoft MSX2

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...

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...

Rayxanber

Fujitsu FM Towns Marty

1990

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 6

3.8

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

Sorcerian

Microsoft MSX2

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...

Thunder Force II

Sharp X68000

October 15, 1988

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 9

3.5

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

X:8

Atari 800

2013

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

X:8 was an entry in the 2013 ABBUC contest. It is a side scrolling "button mash" (although it has auto fire)...

SaGa Frontier

Sony Playstation

March 6, 1998

Community Rating: 3.58
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...

Darius+

Commodore Amiga

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...

Mono Space

MS-DOS

1997

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 2

3.0

Mono Space is a scrolling shoot-'em-up that fuses the play style of Gradius with the wire-frame aesthetics of...

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...

Parodius

Nintendo Game Boy

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...

Chaos Field

Nintendo GameCube

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...

Chaos Field

Sega Dreamcast

December 16, 2004

Community Rating: 3.79
Total Votes: 43

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!

Sharp X68000

1991

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 6

4.2

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

Xexyz

Nintendo Entertainment System

August 26, 1988

Community Rating: 3.82
Total Votes: 59

3.8

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

Delvion Star Interceptor

MS-DOS

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...

Agent X II: The Mad Prof's Back!

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

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...

Salamander: Enhanced

Microsoft MSX2

January 1, 2018

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Aka Salamander Smooth Scroll Version...

Luna: Xmas Edition

Commodore 64

December 12, 2021

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 3

3.7

Luna: Xmas Edition is a Christmas themed side-scrolling shooter similar to games like Gradius/Nemesis for the...

Salamander

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1987

Community Rating: 3.38
Total Votes: 8

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...

Sirius

Atari 7800

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...

U.N. Squadron

Commodore 64

1990

Community Rating: 3.21
Total Votes: 6

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...

Zybex

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1989

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 6

4.0

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

R-Type

Sharp X68000

July 9, 1989

Community Rating: 4.56
Total Votes: 9

4.6

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

Salamander 2

Arcade

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...

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...

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