But the Moai can be a pain

I agree and I like it a lot, too 👍

What are you talking about

YOU LIKE THIS LOL :)

@@LTDANMAN44 yeah LOL

You were banned because you played too well!? That's the retro equivalent of being called a hacker and getting reported in an online game because you beat everyone

Yo wtf that ain't right lol

I'd love to have been there. -sorry sir you've been playing too long. You must choose another game. --ok then refund my quarter because I wasn't even close to being finished.

Brightness or gain is too high in the emulator, hence the washed out look. On a real Nemesis/Gradius arcade PCB with the brightness level set correctly, the game looks much better. Also, nice job getting banned from the game! I saw a dude loop Salamander six times or more on a credit when I took a trip to Tokyo a few years ago. Would walk off, come back, score kept going up, even an hour or two later.

@@ikagura why most of the bosses in GRADIUS 1985 are only Big Core MK1s?

The home versions, the PC Engine, and the Gradius Deluxe Packs on PS1, Saturn, and Windows, as well as Gradius Portable/Collection added ending credits to the game.

Sadly it is one of the weaker ports. The best goes to the Gradius Deluxe Pack on PS1, Saturn, and Windows, Gradius Collection PSP, and the PC Engine ports. It's still decent, but so hard to go back to once you own better versions of it, ports that are pretty much arcade perfect.

I don't know if PCB's need warming up per se. I think if anything maybe the monitor needed sometime to heat up? Otherwise it's probably just a fancy boot sequence...

akaTheWilyFox Yep, it's probably the monitor that needed to heat up :D

akaTheWilyFox Nope, here is a completely different reason of it. This screen is typical for arcade system "Bubble System". When you turn on it, it writes on the boot screen "wait while system heating up", because the BM needs to be heated up to between 30-40 degrees to work properly (Wikipedia).

RussianSquareVatnik Yep, you are actually correct. Huh, I actually didn't know about Bubble Memory. That's actually a pretty cool thing :D

It's because older arcade machines operated on coal.

You're best off if you can make it to the boss with lasers and a couple of option cannons, hiding to the far left just a little higher than the volcano, making sure that your option cannons are well spread-out, and just keep blasting. If you've lost lives beforehand and didn't have enough power-ups to get the laser or option cannons, your better bet is to stay near the top in the middle, shoot as many rocks as you can that come out of the volcano on the right, and otherwise keep dodging the rocks that come out of both.

The creators of Abadox, Natsume, had former Konami staff working for them. Even the pause jingle is the Konami pause jingle.

I thought I was the only one thinking of a Gradius collection.

Same here, if only Scramble (if counted), Gradius II, Salamander and this were removed on Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection and replaced with classics like Frogger. Also, Haunted Castle would've been on a Castlevania collection instead.

@@peterparkerspizzaface1515 Gradius Collection conversion is far better.

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+Carlos “Made” Pardo This guy is probably emulating it. He also turned up the brightness to like 200% I swear.

+Alice Wolff no it's on mane 0.144

I know it is. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine *Emulator*. He turned the brightness on the emulator up way high.

it's on default setting

I ran it on the same version without ever touching the settings and it wasn't this bright. It also didn't run this bright on the original machine.

+DANA Y I love Gradius, but the arcade originals have fairly bad game design, as in there's lots of unfair shit in them. I'm not talking shit about Konami, that's just how arcade games tend to go because in order to make the most money from your arcade game, you have to find the best balance between killing the player OFTEN, so he has to put in more money to continue, and fun, so the player actually wants to continue.

+DANA Y Take Gradius Syndrome for example. You collect 34 powerups or so to get to full power, and then you die, and you might have ONE when you respawn. And the level is designed for you to be at full power. Many times it is LITERALLY impossible to continue because you can't get your powerups back. Sometimes the checkpoints (like in Gradius II) are placed right in the middle of a death trap with tiles breaking from the walls and flying at you from every conceivable direction you could go. Or the way the first game gives you a forward shield, and as soon as you get it, almost all the enemies fire at you when they hit the LEFT side of the screen. Or the last stage of any Gradius arcade game where there are unexpected walls, mook spawners that you can't reach in a claustrophobic area, bullet hell that you HAVE to take a hit to get through with your massive hitbox, etc.

+DANA Y Console Gradius games were typically MUCH better games as far as fairness and fun goes. They're hard, but there's always a way to either dodge or memorize every obstacle. The only unfair thing left is Gradius Syndrome, but the checkpoints are nicer and it's possible to continue more often than in arcades...

+DANA Y Well, I can tell you one thing: give the games "Gun Nac" for the NES and "Space Megaforce" & "R-Type 3" for the SNES a try, and I think you will agree that those games do not need to rely on "nostalgia" at all, because they are freaking amazing. They are so well made and so sophisticated and addictive that they would be just as fun to play in 100 years as well. And if you really want a truly insane NES shmup, then check out "Summer Carnival '92: Recca" for the Famicom. That game is so bloody insane and demanding that I guarantee that you will get tons of Game Overs to even finish the first stage. =D

I'll keep an eye out for them. thanks!

VectorOmega yes,both are on bubble system

Yeah, cause the slowdown would've been HORRIFIC.

That means the game runs too fast, this is how Gradius runs, even on PS1, Saturn, and PSP, as well as the one on DS in Konami Arcade Hits.

Nope, this is the arcade version which came out before the NES one

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It is except it's the original Gradius before the international release with higher difficulty

AfaIk it was called Nemesis in the UK. In fact when Gradius II came out I didn't even know that it was the sequel. I thought that it was another game that copied a lot of the features of the original.

Microsoft or Sony fan? I'm curious to your logic. Most long play dislikes usually boil down to someone disagreeing with how the game was played.

akaTheWilyFox and how would you know that?

batlin by reading comments in long play videos. I thought it a simple observation...

akaTheWilyFox Seems more like a tenuous inference than a simple observation.

batlin No less tenuous than the original comment I replied to.

Doll Face I like the arcade graphics better in my opinion

H ok ļ LP mo putting dd

so...just play gradius neo imperial

Me decepcione cuando llegue al final del nivel, estaba todo emocionado porque sabía que pelearía con él, pero me salieron con esa mierda anticlimática jajajajs.