Such a great game. The MSX was the king of 8 bit shooters.

This game is awesome! Great graphics, superb sound track and very well designed.

This is epic game , everything from story to music to game play is amazing . thanks konami for this gem

Most epic part of all epic Nemesis level music themes start at 3:53

I got more satisfaction destroying Abadon at the end of stage 7 than I did finishing the whole game. 2 weeks it took me to get past that sucker. Then it became really easy to finish the whole game without being killed.

super game i played it a thousand times when i was young :)

MSX was a good machine - when programmed properly. Back in the day, Konami knew how to make it sing and dance. Shame really - Konami are nothing today. Great vid!

Best memory's I almost cry when I saw this

For those complaining about the choppy scroll, there's a patch that enhances the game with smoothscroll and better colors on MSX2+/TurboR.

Theses games are for champions not like these days games ,,, it was a difficult one really and by the end of it you feel exhausted hhhh

This brings back many memories of playing this game for HOURS!!!!! The trusty old Toshiba MSX!! Thanks for posting!!!

Wow, MSX had its own completely seperate line of Gradius sequels, I need to play these

Nemesis had a story; weird in that era , great player you r

Wow, I played this for months when I was a kid, and never knew you could enter the bosses to upgrade your weapons...

Awesome game and you played it perfectly - respect!

MSX2 forever!! Thanks for the video. :)

The Konami MSX division was headed by Hideo Kojima and staffed by the crew who'd go on to form Treasure (likely why the arcade ports had so many extra features added). A fine pedigree.

The weird thing in these gradius games , is the gradius 2 is more advanced and crisp music and wondeful looking graphics than the modern games released !

I have now 48 year. Want to back play this game again

Très bon jeux, mais aussi très difficile ! J'ai passé des mois sur ce jeux quand j'étais ado. Mais quel plaisir de l'avoir terminé 2 fois !

Man, this was one hard game...

This game has some great music...

14:24 music is also awesome!

ca me rappel mon enfance, j ai passé des heures dessus

RIP Legend

I played this a lot with my Spectravideo 328. Great game and superb music.

I heard this song on level 1 like one or two times in my life and it's been stuck in my head ever since. I finally tracked it down. For whatever reason I was playing on an msx emulator (on an iMAC system 8 lol) that came pre-installed with this

You did an EPIC playgame. Thanks James Burton for save nemesis from doctor venom 👩‍🚀🤙✨

Happy ! Just found it for 1 euro. Great game !

I truly love this game. Praise MSX and the other ports that have this game. The best thing I love about this game is warping inside the stunned boss (after beating it) to claim an upgrade for your ship! :DD Praise Gradius! I'd play this game over and over if I wanted to!

Another franchise killed by the present Konami. That's sad!

3:30 And now I know where those green faces in Gradius Rebirth come from.

With that being said, Konami needs to make a Gradius VI. I know that there technically ARE six Gradius games in the main series but Gradius Gaiden is not called Gradius V, for that title belongs to another (though also great) Gradius game. Some of these weapons that are in here should be in this game, such as the double laser, the extended laser, the wall lasers, and the drill thingy. The rotating option was put into Gradius III (all versions), so why not the other awesome weapons?

2020 anyone?

The Wiiware game Gradius Rebirth is a prequel that takes place 2 years before this game and also features Dr. Venom and James Burton, with Venom's plans for a coup and subsequent exile happening at the end, with a "To be continued." Sadly, they never did make a modern remake of this game.

Great game. Great sound and music also, still have my original cartridge!

Man, even for it's time the musics are just awesome. Perhaps we should have stayed at 3-5 sound channels so video game developers would have kept impressing me.

This was pretty long, for a Gradius game.

Omg😫😫 almost crying

Now after i tried hard to remember, i was this close from finishing the game also salamander,i barrow this game from friend and play for 6h per day until he ask me for it, that was every week so actually it stayed withme for year and i play it everyday, that was good memory to remember good moment from the past

Perfect play through

I got the impression that this game and the music plays like 10% faster than it was in MSX2. Could it be possible?

If Lars is emperor 18th, wouldn't that make James Burton emperor 19th?

This game is the sequel of rebirth :)

This is an excellent game. A tricky one for sure.

This was a much harder game than Nemesis I, that you could play indefinately. Which made Nemesis II much more fun to play.

NOT MEANT TO BE PLAYED BY REGULAR HUMANS :D

SSC ftw

Fantastic game!🤩👌⚡

Thanks for showing The vídeo. Némesis II is Great!!!!.

Love this game's music! Shame modern Konami will likely NEVER do anything worthwhile with the amazing Gradius series again (no, pachinko bullshit doesn't count!).... :-(

This is a Gradius spinoff?

Hours I've spent playing this game would have made me a real captain 😂😂😂

That moment when i select Double by mistake 😂

why does he not use the two secret levels...?

49.15 I spot a place where the player should have been killed. Is this a tas run?

unfortunately the copy i owned had a bug in the last level, no boss spawns and the screen keeps moving until you hit the wall and die, after all these years (35 years i believe) i just wanted to know how it ends :)

Only one without Moai Statue

Nemesis 2 has more stages, seven and repeat back. And 1 stage more, the stage 0 when you return, and later you have to repeat everything more difficult, i reached stage 33(2 times go, 2 times back and one time go until 5fth stage)

Amazing player i never played namsis 2 only 1

Abaddon warship at the end of level 7 ate my lunch!!! It took me longer to beat that twat than it did the whole game.

Finished it without one death, forward and backward

海外にもあったのか❗

I wonder how would a remake look on the PS4!

great game.....

@dave4shmups Yeah the scrolling is choppy, but you get used to it pretty quick. That's how all the Konami Shmups (And a lot of MSX games) are in general but don't miss out on this game it's really good! That or you could play the X68000 version Nemesis 90' Kai, Personally I recommend you play both versions.

懐かしー！

There is actually a safe spot on the final boss too red bullets and the lightening cannot hit you and it is not tucking yourself away into a corner, from memory it is around the middle of the screen takes a bit of playing around to find it but the way the lightening fires it curves over the top of the Metalion and the below it as it passes it by.

The MSX scrolling was weird. Didn't the platform support it natively?

The only thing I like about this game was the metalion ship

very nice graphics and music for such an old machine. just the "blockwise" scrolling is a bit hard on the eyes.

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¿What if the scientist Dr. Venom is right, and had very scientific reasons to overthrow the despotic emperor who send him to Siberia planet, then starts a rebellion, and you're one of the bad guys trying to stop it? The pilot looks pretty evil 2:27. You're the Vader of this story.

and what did pixels have to do with quality music that barely exists in these days again?

faster than original

You missed all the warp stages.😂

I really liked playing this game back in the day but blimey, the scrolling makes your eyes bleed.

good job, but so much speed for first 6 stages.

Disappoint ending sequence as usual in many Konami games for MSX.

How did they get this sound out of the same chip they used in the first game?

Elitist much, Oriru Bastard? As much as I like 8-bit games, I know that there is a whole world that is out there that is beyond mere pixels, sir. I have grown up on 8-bit and 16-bit systems and I am in my 30s, so I am more than qualfied to tell it like it is to you, sir.

持ってる！

Hi ! PAUSE at 8:11...Are you cheating dude ? ^^ Invulnerability ? Anyway, Thanks for you video dude !

8 Maximum :P

It’s trying so hard not to sound very calculating!

Looks cool, except for the jerky scrolling.

EDF

Took you a month to come up with in accurate that answer, huh? As for innovation, there has been very little lately and no, not because I'm scared, because there hasn't been much progress, it's simple as that. One game used to have a great OST but in these days one game OST has only 3-5 listenable songs that we can care or call as memorizable. As for the innovation. There are plenty, but still it doesn't make game better music than it was.

The arcade and famicom version is bit better.

The horizontal scrolling is disgustingly awful lol!

Planet Sin, year 6666, oh dear..

The player of this TAS run is actually quite bad. I'm laughing at the confusion with up and down lasers he has in the beginning, as if trying it for first time. Also he is using force field like an idiot. He knows he can outmaneuver everything by playing at fraction of real gameplay speed.

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