This rare Gradius music box has to be one of the coolest limited-edition game-related items we've ever seen. It's not much to look at -- pretty much just a wooden box with the Gradius logo printed on ...

Gradius III was one of Konami's first releases for the SNES and took the popular shooter franchise into the 16-bit realm for the first time. As is the case with many Konami games, it featured an ...

Retro-games. Space Invaders and Ikaruga, Monkey Island and Super Monkey Ball, Donkey Kong and Super Mario 64, Game & Watch and Neo-Geo Pocket Color, 1975 and 1999, Pong and Virtua Tennis, Centipede ...

Konami Digital Entertainment has unveiled a slate of projects to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Konami Code and the NES release of Gradius, where the code debuted. The celebration includes six ...

Whether you call it Salamander, Life Force, or Gradius, here's every mainline installment in the Gradius SHMUP series over the years. No Scramble here -- it was the inspiration, not a Vic Viper or ...

Gradius V includes five difficulty settings ranging from very easy to very hard, but even on the lowest setting it’s still an exceptionally challenging game. The levels and boss fights tend to take ...

The original Gradius arcade release was one of the first truly great side-scrolling shooters and, along with R-Type, spawned a legion of copycat video games back in the 80s and 90s. The Gradius titles ...

In 1981, Konami released Scramble, a game that became the first ever side-scrolling shooter where you pilot an aircraft over a terrain filled with enemies. It was a simple concept -- avoid hazards, ...

Konami and M2 present a new compilation of classic Gradius titles, which also includes a brand new sequel for one of the best 2D shooter series of the 80s and 90s. For the longest time it seemed as if ...

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