Title: VS. Gradius

Manufacturer: Konami/Nintendo

Year: 1986

Hardware:

Nintendo VS. System

Main Processor: Custom M6502 (8-bit; 1.790 MHz)

Sound Hardware: Nintendo Custom

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Description

Horizontal scrolling shoot'em up. The inferior NES hardware port of the original konami arcade game Gradius.

This is really strange, first Konami releases a fine arcade game with state of the art hardware, then Nintendo comes along and puts an inferior NES console conversion inside an arcade machine displaying an insert coin message... I have a hard time understanding why would someone choose the inferior VS. system with the NES hardware over the REAL arcade game.

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Emulation Status

Emulator: Miscelaneous NES console emulators; please consult the Nintendo VS. section to find out wich emulator works best with this specific game.

Playable: Yes

Sound: Yes

 

Emulation under development by MAME

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Screenshots

Screenshots from the arcade version captured with FCE Ultra emulator.

vs-gradius-04.jpg (3113 bytes) vs-gradius-03.jpg (10083 bytes)

vs-gradius-01.jpg (10104 bytes) vs-gradius-02.jpg (16104 bytes)


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