Classic Game Room - GRADIUS review for NES
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Classic Game Room reviews GRADIUS from Konami released in 1986 on the Nintendo Entertainment System! Gradius was originally released to the Japanese arcades in 1985 and gained immediate attention for its amazing quality and awesome game play. The 8-bit NES version of Gradius looks great and plays well too! Fly the Vic Viper through fantastic space environments and shoot everything that moves in this classic side scrolling shoot 'em up from Konami.
Ahhh the beautiful mid-eighties. Good times!
+DinoRocker 86 even before they were great, I think the 128B its the last era when videogames were good...some today are, but nothing much to loo, you need to check really deep to know
This is one of my favorite NES games! No, it isn't arcade perfect, but it's pretty badass for a NES release.
+Classic Gaming Quarterly Gradius II Gofer no Yabou on Famicom is excellent, they compensed the no-arcade perfect and flickering adding extra things to gameplay
Year I was born and some of my earliest memories are playing Gradius on my grandma's NES. Yes you heard that right I said my Grandma's, she was a PC builder when I was growing up and was also into gaming at 60 something years old. So she always had the latest nintendo system and games and also awesome computers (Windows 3.1 what what). I remember she was the first person on my block to have an SNES and everyone would come over to play Mario Kart.
But back to Gradius, I looooooove Gradius.
That was my favorite song in a spaceship game back in the day. I love this game. Still have it. Used to play on the Phantom System.
My favorite is Gradius III for the Super NES. There was just something about the Snes and shooter games (or Shmups as there now called) that was magical & beautiful. The Gradius games provided hours (& years) of replayability, fun, and achievement. Thank you for your review.
If you consider slowdown magical and beautiful, sure.
I love Gradius I and II on the NES almost as much as I love the original CGR intro.
Gradius II in particular was an amazing technical achievement. It features some of the best graphics & music of the 8-bit era IMO. I only discovered them recently but they most definitely hold up as timeless shooters.
Mark on vacation? Most of these are re-uploads
+Dan the Man | Funny Videos! Dan, make some GTA videos :D
+Deep_wolf Don't harass Dan. Just be grateful that he's in a CZcams CGR comments section.
NEON 7 No offense, It's just being a while since last GTA video uploaded.
+Deep_wolf True.
This and Life Force were perhaps my two favorite NES games as far as how many times I beat them over and over. Konami games were so good around then.
I watch these videos just to hear the old CGR intro.
My First Time playing Gradius was on NES port when I was a 8 year old child since 2009 is been nostalgia
Love this game and the NES! Such a fun system lol.
I used to play this game, a classic space shooter for the NES, and it is definitely the hardest.
I like the sound when a ship loses a life, it's the same sound where a character disappears and reappears as you teleporting into other locations, just like "Star Trek" as Captain Kirk and the crew beams down to teleport a location.
There's an error in the description, Gradius was out in 1986 not 1996
The original arcade came out in '85. The NES version came out far later in '96.
Al Pals Nope, Japanese version came out in April 86, American version in December 86, and European version in November 88. Think about the era, the machine would have been a decade old in 96, the Sony Playstation was out by then
Good game, but it takes a LOT of getting used to... Some people hate the Gradius style of upgrades, and I also did, until I gave it a fair chance and now I think it's okay and I really enjoy the games!
One more thing: EXTREME FLICKERING!!
+Ruko Michiharu I like Gradius III on the SNES but something about make me lose interest pretty quickly
I think the problem with the Gradius power up system is that builds you up tremendously as it keeps showering you in little upgrades to the point where you feel invincible then in that overconfidence BOOM. you lose a life and start from the way back to the beginning with nothing but a garbage, slow moving and shooting ship, it doesn't really encourage you to try again.
Thunderforce's system is much better to me because it leaves you cautious not to constantly use your best weapons, since you don't want to die and lose them. it forces you to use them when they're best suited to the enemy, even something as awesome as the hunter won't protect you from enemy fire, hence I almost never use it without a shield or if it's my last life. Aside from that the base ship is already decent enough, when you die you don't go from a nuclear battleship to a toddler's tricycle, you go from a tank to a military truck basically. Even Raiden trad's system of having that fairy drop a few powerups every respawn does a much better job of encouraging you to continue the fight.
***** I can totally see where you're coming from, the Gradius style of upgrades is very harsh with the player, if you die once you might as well start over... And I'll have to agree, Thunder Force's system is better indeed...
But well, Gradius is the kind of game that requires you to play from the start multiple times and memorize it, it wants you to know the game like the back of your hand and play from start to finish without ever dying... This is definitely NOT for everybody, it requires a lot of dedication and concentration, and I honestly don't have enough of those to beat any of the games... But I still have fun trying!
+Ruko Michiharu Ah yes, I remember how 8-bit systems flickered a lot when there was too much going on! I didn't know what caused it back in the day, but I know now it's because the PPU's (Picture Processing Units) could only draw so much (8 8x8 sprites in the NES' case) in a scanline in the time it took the beam to draw said scanline. So the developers had to multiplex these sprites, which was using the same sprite to draw two or more sprites alternating between them, which is what caused the flicker.
kevin12567 Yeah, I know how it works, the thing is that I like to make fun of the NES for having so much flickering >w>
But I still love it~
+Ruko Michiharu i know its a spin off and all...but i liked salamander/life force better than any of the gradius games i have tried on the nes.
a few eps down on this simpler intro and having the less radio style voice.. I gotta say. I love it
Another re-upload... Here we go again...
I'm sure you heard this before, but that classic intro is the jam
Damn, I can't believe you haven't reviewed this game before...or perhaps I don't remember it originally? It brings back great memories...ah...1985, one of the best years!
i love this intro so much
Don't forget, Gradius 2 was called LIFEFORCE on the Nes. Probably my favorite space shooter on the system.
Sorry friendo. but it's not, it's in the same universe/continuity so it's a Spin-Off, called "Life Force" in the US and "Salamander" everywhere else, but "Gradius 2" later came out on the Famicom and it's totally worth importing ^_^
You forgot to mention "Rocky IV",Mark. Which was also released in 1985.
Love for Duran Duran - all the more reason to love you, Mark!
grew up playing this, i love gradius
Mark, that Yellow ball guy with beer is the logo thing for a place called "Grumpy's Liquor Hut". Are you associated with them?
Don't forget that you can pause, enter the Konami Code (uuddlrlrba) and you'll be given a shield and two options.
It's always nice to hear his voice, though.
Gradius Collection for the PSP!! You can get it for the Vita in Europe but Sony NA hate me.
Yes the Royals play the Blue Jays just like in 1985! Let's go Back to the Future!
3:22 the origin of Borg cubes
Thumbs up if you'd love to hear Mark read 50 Shades of Grey on air.
CGR, I love you, but stop with the reuploads.
Been so long since I played this.
i think we all know by now that they dvd and laser hyper vision album set are available.
Shocked you didn't mention one cartoon from 1985. There were a whole bunch of them
Also, does this re-upload mean we finally are going to get to see pt. 2 of this review, Mark?
Where's "part II"?
My favorite space shooter game ever..!!
Where is part 2?
I never understood how Lifeforce got more love than this. Granted this is a bitchin hard game but I love it.
The one thing i dont' like about gradius 1 is that you cant just hold down the shoot button. Atleast they fixed it on gradius 3
watch mojo has featured some of your videos when having top ten gaming lists.
Yeah bought it to play on the 3DS like in 2016 I think. Haven't gotten around to beatin it. Have it on swich online and the NES classic. I just beat legit no cheesing double dragon II NES on supreme master mode for the first time this Friday. Being send out of town for a few days for a work job. Watching downloaded netflick movies and episodes on a cell phone placed on a switch hori kickstand while playing crystalis or gradius. Only issue is it will be hot on the 4th floor of that hotel.
Where’s part 2?
I love life force!!
This was a good review. Thanks for posting it.
that gradius press start tone is taken from wreck-it-ralph.
I was more into Nemesis on the Gameboy.
awesome
This Video Looks like from a VHS Tape ;)
Gradius was the first game i remember playing as a kid.
I've seen an AI absolutely destroy Gradius. It was hilarious to see it do pixel perfect maneuvers and even _cheat_ bosses :P
+Zeithri o.O
More re-uploads??? Is Mark running out of things to review?
Hail Lord Karnage!
I was born in 1985. Best year ever :)
That might be some of the most triumphant game over music I've ever heard.
Back when Konami was king
And I was born in 1985 Mark
The best thing that happened that year
HISSSSSSSS
What about that intro
Could the reason for Mark reuploading old videos is because he just doesn't care anymore?!
I was BORN in 1985. 11th of october to be more specific. I just stepped into my 30's.
I've heard something about some sort of code associated with this game but I think it's just an urban legend.
Powa of rove
just played arcade arcives gradius 3 n omg that game is fckd up hard n so was thid beforre i played graduis 3 aa.. but i went back to nes gradius and it was waaaaay better graduis 3 arcade trained me to play this one (nes graduis is still hard but easier now i played 3 arcde)
slowdown city. Hate this game cause of that (playing it on switch online so obviously nintendo have decided to keep all the slowdown, how retro of them LOL).
Leaf a like
unite my brother. HSSSSSSSS
Hisssss
Pretty good game, but I prefer Zanac on the NES.
this game is hard as fuck
thought u where a sega guy but u gave an nes game a 2 part review shame on u
lifeforce is better
hssssss
the 2 thumbs down were because they didn't use the konami code :p
The best way to enjoy this game is on the PC Engine or the MSX, the NES release is inferior in every way... btw, stop re-uploading! :( ...
+Andrea Celauro No shit, Sherlock! I wish children would stop stating the obvious...
+Andrea Celauro PSP, or if you're in Europe Vita.
***** Screw the PC Master Race!
NEON 7 He said PC Engi.......ah forget it. :-P
***** Oh. My bad.