Konami’s classic arcade-turned-NES shooter Gradius owed plenty to older shooters like Defender and Scramble, but Gradius brought to the table a unique weapon-upgrade system that would be a defining ...

Across the galaxy, there exists a distant planet known as Gradius. Gradius' peaceful existence has been brought to an end by an intense space invasion by a race known as the Bacterion. To save the ...

Gradius III was one of the first SNES shooters and to be perfectly honest, it shows. Graphically the game is fairly bland (although the same could be said of the coin op original), the sound is ...

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See, way back in the day, we didn't have any of this Quake, or Half-life, or any of that Silent Scope or Time Crisis stuff. When we wanted to shoot something, we didn't pick up a gun - geez, you ...

This game kicked my butt. Then again, and again. When I finally beat it, I jumped off the couch with a victory yell (I know, I know - nerd alert). Not many games make me do that. I'm in my late 30's, ...

As one of the earliest shmups to hit the Super Nintendo along with Super R-Type, it was hard not to love Konami's Gradius III. It remains an absolute luxury to have such a great exclusive home port, ...

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 ...

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 ...