I remember as a kid growing up, my Dad used to play this game all the time. Absolute technophobe he was, wouldn't go on the internet, wouldn't play any other game, but he would always break out Gradius every now and then. Never managed to beat the game, never could get past level 7. He always used to say to me "I'm sure that level 7 is the last level, there's no way that it could get any harder." Sure enough he was right. Seeing this video I think what he was doing wrong is that he never thought to switch the laser for the double for the final level. 30 years he played that game, never occurred to him to try that. He's gone now though, before his time :( Would have loved to have seen his face if he ever beat the game, think he would have done eventually
Wow!! One of my favorite NES games of all time! I beat this game like 3 times! As a girl I thought I could NEVER do it! My parents and siblings would sit around me and watch me play it..the key was to choose the correct fire power for each level. This game took me on a journey that I'll never forget and it's 40 years later...The good Memories are too many to count!
Hahaha. I used to play this game all the time on our NES in the 80s. Most memorable moment - my dad was the first of us to reach the final stage, and we didn't know about the gate at the end, so it closed on him and he had to play again. =D
I play this game when I was 6 and I finished Gradius using UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A B A.. and I am 38. Solomon's key, Galaga, Satanden, I think my father buys 100+ famcom games since 1982. . And he also like and a fan of Solomon's key. :) Great video and I love Family Computer..
At 1:40, if you back your spaceship into the right corner of the giant rock, you'll score some hidden bonus points. There are lots of hidden surprises like that in Gradius.
My god I remember this game back in my youth! Those Easter Island heads shooting out blue rings instantly gave me a nostalgia rush! Bought this game on eBay just this second! Can't wait to play again and relive some memories! :-)
That's a decent run. At the end of level 2, you don't have to move at all if you sit just off the bottom left corner with the options above you. Also, you can position yourself to sit between the missiles from the ships at the end of the levels without having to move. And also, this game can be completed like you did WITHOUT a shield.
I'm playing this on the switch..I had no idea I'm about to beat the game...I thought it was just an unforgiving game with mega levels. I figured games from the 80's don't mess around, get good is the only option.
I finally got past that level this year. I played a little bit of level 5 on a friends save acidentally. I was not too bad. I do think that level 3 is one of the hardest levels in the game.
NES games difficulty are the equivalent of legendary difficult of todays machines... i beat this at the age of 7. its crazy. one of my proudest gaming moments.
I remember when I used to play this game for hours. I reach the Loop 4, Stage 2, the game is a hell at that point. Playing the Stage 4 was extremely rare for me, cuz I destroy the moais as much as I can, and it sadly skips the Stage 4, cuz it's my favorite stage
This game is the definition of Nintendo hard. It just keeps going, even when you get to the next level, and if you lose your weapons, which you do if you die once... you're pretty much SOL. It's a lot more fun to play it on the NES Classic or Switch online service with save states and rewind.
On gradius, Most important. Dodge techniques to avoid hitting by the bad enemy shooter. However, I found 1980s childhood memory of gradius (1985). Since when i was 4 years old?
If you defeat the first boss as soon as its core turns blue you will go to the warp zone and skip the second stage If you destroy a lot of moai in the third stage you'll get the warp zone again and skip the fourth stage There are other skips as well but I never got them
people say hey you missed the 1ups....yeah but.....the point is they finished the game without dying. So the 1ups were obviously unnecessary. Though frankly we have no proof this isn't edited from emulator but either way.
à 4.30 je me demande si je suis arrivé jusque là ...toujours est il que je devais avoir 14ans grand max ....j y ai passé quelques heures c'etait penible à en faire une video du grenier ;D
ah si les trucs de pacques me disent kkchose donc j'ai du arriver au moins une fois jusqu'aux tetes de pacques mais je penses fermement ne pas avoir été plus loin ;)
10.54mn je confirme j'ai pas vu ces bestioles, le jeu m'a eu avant mais bon pas de merite, mon truc n'est pas la perseverence en un domaine, mais plutôt une polyvalence exssive pour le bien de tous, et d'abord de moi :)
No miss? You missed a lot of enemies dude. And you play in ways that make it harder for you as the player but that’s part of what makes it interesting I guess. I never saw anyone ever use the regular and the double guns so much. What also really baffles me is you didn’t get the level skip warp after any level. When I play, I always do. Anyway nice video nonetheless.
@@PEG Ah. Didn't know that. Okay. Only wannabe japanese non-japanese people, hardcore anime fans, and actual japanese people from japan would probably know that so don't blame me for not knowing that.
I remember this game being so f'ing hard. I felt so accomplished when I finally made it to those asshole bubble shooting statues and never made it past
I hate the Moai stage, too. Everytime I completed the stage, I only have one life left, mainly because the stupid Moai heads keep shooting rings at me.
Used to play Gradius with my older brother in the 80s. He was great with all the games. Recently found an original Nintendo NES and bought him and me a console each. He played Gradius like he never stopped all those years in between, still good at it! Sadly Bro passed from cancer last August2021. Will share this video with his two young sons. When I watch this video it’s like I was watching how my bro used to play. Thank you for this! I’ll have to play it once again in his honor and maybe challenge his boys to a game too. Like we used to do during our childhood.
The composer for this game was only 17 years old when the game came out, and it was the first game she ever composed for. It's also one of the earliest games I can think of that has a song playing during the level. What a debut!
Beating this game when I was 10 years is still the greatest achievement in my life. The only way to beat this game is with no deaths. If you die in a later level you're never going to power up again.
I used to record with a Walkman the games I beat. I recorded the songs playing at the ending and would have a beat game list saved using windows 3.1 note and a diskette. Good days.
I discovered it just a few years back at 20-ish old as part of a loose bundle of NES games I got with the console, been one of my favorites on the system ever since. It's amazing how a game that's almost four decades old can still feel so kinetically pleasing in terms of gameplay.
Thank you for the notes. Here I wonder how can you fire so fast without turbo. My thumbs sore after playing this game. Also I'm not a big fan of laser weapon. I need a good reflex to deal with enemies and I'm really clumsy with shumps. Double is better for me as it covers more area, so I don't have to manuever too much.
Thank you for this playthrough! This is how the game is meant to be played, and still be human! I had to look through 4 other playthroughs which were played in an extremely boneheaded way of getting so many speed ups at the beginning, instead of the more rational missile, option, etc. I couldn’t think of any reason why someone would do this due to the danger of crashing, but now I suspect they were cheating and playing at much slower speed, thus needing the speed up to not feel so slow in real life, and then they sped up the video later for uploading to TH-cam.
My teenage years playing Nintendo Family Computer... lots of memories... and its confirmed that playing these games can help & maintain good mental health, on average/moderate playtime. Just balance it.
Just played this game on an emulator for first time since playing it on console about 15 years ago. I think I made it to the second level on console. Used state save abuse like crazy in order to beat this game on the emulator and it was very fun. Ended up with a score of 256,200. Quite short of yours as you are obviously a complete master at this game. I eventually figured out I couldn't have all the upgrades and had to leave one by the wayside. I got the 3 speedups as you did. I decided any more than that was too fast. For the majority of the game, however, I chose the double instead of the laser and now see that is not the smartest choice except for that last level. Lots of those rock arm monsters on level 5 I simply evaded rather than destroyed, for instance. You only needed 2 shield replacements whereas I needed about 7 or 8. Major props to you! Oh! and the music from the 2nd part of level 4 here is some of the best video game music I have ever heard! And I have played about 100 NES/SNES games. Rivals much of the music Capcom came up with for their Mega Man series. The chord progression in this Gradius 4-2 is a little similar to "Elecman" in the first Mega Man for NES.
Thanks! I totally agree with you about the stage 4 music, it's awesome. If you like that you should definitely check out the hidden remix track from the arcade version of Gradius III: th-cam.com/video/XuYKhG6KEMs/w-d-xo.html. It's amazing!
I remember when first time t past that trapped last level and i met the final boss and i was scare to think he’s unbeaten but bro was a dead brain 🧠😂😂🤣
When it came to the talisman statue level, I didn't spare those talisman statues because I would obliterate many as possible when I first played this game.
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I remember as a kid growing up, my Dad used to play this game all the time. Absolute technophobe he was, wouldn't go on the internet, wouldn't play any other game, but he would always break out Gradius every now and then. Never managed to beat the game, never could get past level 7. He always used to say to me "I'm sure that level 7 is the last level, there's no way that it could get any harder." Sure enough he was right. Seeing this video I think what he was doing wrong is that he never thought to switch the laser for the double for the final level. 30 years he played that game, never occurred to him to try that. He's gone now though, before his time :( Would have loved to have seen his face if he ever beat the game, think he would have done eventually
David Sawyer Jesus; I’m tearing up.
Your dad sounds like an awesome guy haha
Same here but with an uncle. I'd navigate while he shot. It took over 50 tries but we beat it
(presses F to pay respects)
Sounds like you need to do it for your dad bro! X
Wow!! One of my favorite NES games of all time! I beat this game like 3 times! As a girl I thought I could NEVER do it! My parents and siblings would sit around me and watch me play it..the key was to choose the correct fire power for each level. This game took me on a journey that I'll never forget and it's 40 years later...The good Memories are too many to count!
Hahaha. I used to play this game all the time on our NES in the 80s. Most memorable moment - my dad was the first of us to reach the final stage, and we didn't know about the gate at the end, so it closed on him and he had to play again. =D
+MatrixAndrAIa Lol the same thing happened to me the first time I got to the end. Damn gate!
MatrixAndrAIa this game was with me and uncle back in the days. He'd shoot while I navigated
I was just playing this and that shit happened to me that's why I came to youtube to see the ending (Which I was at apparently............damn it)
@@PEG are you a guy or a woman
Guy
I still remember, when i played this the very first time back in 1990.
My dad used to blaze through this and R-Type, and to this day I've never beaten either one. I get anxious just watching this. 😂
Beautiful game. And you are a beautiful person with a beautiful playthrough. PERFECT
Wow
Wholesome
Gay
wasn't that perfect u wanker.
I play this game when I was 6 and I finished Gradius using UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A B A.. and I am 38.
Solomon's key, Galaga, Satanden, I think my father buys 100+ famcom games since 1982. .
And he also like and a fan of Solomon's key. :)
Great video and I love Family Computer..
At 1:40, if you back your spaceship into the right corner of the giant rock, you'll score some hidden bonus points. There are lots of hidden surprises like that in Gradius.
daniel thomas You don't get bonus points, you get a 1up.
@@Colonel-Llama
Yes you can also get bonus points man not only 1 Up.
This and Life Force were awesome.
My god I remember this game back in my youth! Those Easter Island heads shooting out blue rings instantly gave me a nostalgia rush! Bought this game on eBay just this second! Can't wait to play again and relive some memories! :-)
+chrismadagames Glad you rediscovered this awesome game, have fun!
Wow this game is unbreakable like a diamond. Truly a shining experience. If just echoes through my head over and over
This is the first time I’ve Seen somebody beat this
Ahh, Gradius! So many memories!
I grew up its sad 😭 I remember playing this game when I was young
That's a decent run. At the end of level 2, you don't have to move at all if you sit just off the bottom left corner with the options above you. Also, you can position yourself to sit between the missiles from the ships at the end of the levels without having to move. And also, this game can be completed like you did WITHOUT a shield.
But just to be safe lol
Played the Hell out of this growing up. I have it on an emulator still.
He missed the 1up by touching the boulder by tail
14:43 I would always look forward to this, favorite bit in the whole game! 💙💙💙
I'm playing this on the switch..I had no idea I'm about to beat the game...I thought it was just an unforgiving game with mega levels. I figured games from the 80's don't mess around, get good is the only option.
Me too. Can you beat it without save states? That is my goal.
Also the switch version drops you in like loop 4 for some odd reason. An inexperienced player would get demolished at the giant face stage
thank you, this is amazing. I stumbled over this by accident
I've only arrived to that Moai level, finally I know how hard the next levels are 😭
I finally got past that level this year. I played a little bit of level 5 on a friends save acidentally. I was not too bad. I do think that level 3 is one of the hardest levels in the game.
Thanks this was one of the first game o got when I got my nes for my 13th birthday thanks grandma😁😁😁
This game damages my brain with all those moving things
I played this game as a kid and never beat it but loved it. Bought it as an adult and still can't beat it lol
Me and my uncle use to play this all the time
some nice and golden memories right here.... :')
NES games difficulty are the equivalent of legendary difficult of todays machines... i beat this at the age of 7. its crazy. one of my proudest gaming moments.
Esos sonidos te transportan ala infancia...
I remember when I used to play this game for hours. I reach the Loop 4, Stage 2, the game is a hell at that point.
Playing the Stage 4 was extremely rare for me, cuz I destroy the moais as much as I can, and it sadly skips the Stage 4, cuz it's my favorite stage
This game is the definition of Nintendo hard. It just keeps going, even when you get to the next level, and if you lose your weapons, which you do if you die once... you're pretty much SOL. It's a lot more fun to play it on the NES Classic or Switch online service with save states and rewind.
When I was a Kid and I hear that tune 11:10 This is going to be tough....slow and difficult enemies...
Gradius 🤩🤩 im really miss this game
Gradius
Gradius 2 and
Gradius 3
Also Lifeforce/salamander😅
Awesome game. I always felt like they forgot to put a final boss in though. You get to the brain and...nothing happens.
This isn't the end guys!!! The Game Loops with a few different enemies.....
On gradius, Most important. Dodge techniques to avoid hitting by the bad enemy shooter. However, I found 1980s childhood memory of gradius (1985). Since when i was 4 years old?
That was our game when we was shorties!!!
I tried thus game again when I was in my 20s. Couldn't beat it anymore
I never saw the last level.
Serotonin unlocked
I came here for the Tokyo machine remix, I like this song XD
Nice video pegboy
Even playing on emulator with save this is hard game
IS THIS.... A JOJO REFERENCE
OH. MY. GOD. Excellent!
Just started playing this on Switch.....I had Lifeforce Salamander when I was younger, I completed it.... but this seems to be a lot harder though...
Better than the arcade
One first game 🎮 i brought for my nes 👍 👍 👍 great game. Hello 👋 everyone
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Somehow certain stage is skipped
Replaced with faster scroll with bunch of unkillable head enemies
If you defeat the first boss as soon as its core turns blue you will go to the warp zone and skip the second stage
If you destroy a lot of moai in the third stage you'll get the warp zone again and skip the fourth stage
There are other skips as well but I never got them
There's a way to warp into the Moai stage right after stage 1. But I don't remember how.
My Master!
people say hey you missed the 1ups....yeah but.....the point is they finished the game without dying. So the 1ups were obviously unnecessary. Though frankly we have no proof this isn't edited from emulator but either way.
This looks a lot like Life Force.
+gonzisonsbc yeah ive always seen life force as a sequel to this, even though i played life force first lol
Sniffzoer They are both great games.
Life Force is a sequel to Gradius, and even runs on the same game engine.
This game was before life force and it was both made by konami
I am learned how beat 1-3 stages only.
I don't understand. The final boss is nothing?
Precisely! :D
That was great play,,,,,,,,
I remember this before the emulators..
à 4.30 je me demande si je suis arrivé jusque là ...toujours est il que je devais avoir 14ans grand max ....j y ai passé quelques heures c'etait penible à en faire une video du grenier ;D
ah si les trucs de pacques me disent kkchose donc j'ai du arriver au moins une fois jusqu'aux tetes de pacques mais je penses fermement ne pas avoir été plus loin ;)
10.54mn je confirme j'ai pas vu ces bestioles, le jeu m'a eu avant mais bon pas de merite, mon truc n'est pas la perseverence en un domaine, mais plutôt une polyvalence exssive pour le bien de tous, et d'abord de moi :)
je vais pas me laisser agonir non plus :p .....ds ce monde de brutos avoir la sagesse n'est pas tres bien vu, et c est tres moche à dire
Looks Like Katakis to me?!?! But played it Long Time ago.
This is my first game on dendy
Why you say no miss when you miss a bunch?
it is my first time to see lvl 2 haha
No miss? You missed a lot of enemies dude. And you play in ways that make it harder for you as the player but that’s part of what makes it interesting I guess. I never saw anyone ever use the regular and the double guns so much. What also really baffles me is you didn’t get the level skip warp after any level. When I play, I always do. Anyway nice video nonetheless.
No miss means no death. It's a term the Japanese use. I intentionally did not use any of the warps so that I could show all of the stages.
@@PEG Ah. Didn't know that. Okay. Only wannabe japanese non-japanese people, hardcore anime fans, and actual japanese people from japan would probably know that so don't blame me for not knowing that.
nice
Got to the last level but choked
hate that i spent so much time playing this game, using the stupid up up down down cheat code and i still couldnt beat it.
Score 565,700pts
This game is remake for the game TRANSMUTTER from ATARI
Thank goodness for TH-cam because I would’ve never in my life seen the ending to this. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
What about a game geine?
I remember this game being so f'ing hard. I felt so accomplished when I finally made it to those asshole bubble shooting statues and never made it past
Me too. Broke my first controller to this game.
and now they make SP 2 gradius for switch there's second and third loop and its harder than the OG
I hate the Moai stage, too. Everytime I completed the stage, I only have one life left, mainly because the stupid Moai heads keep shooting rings at me.
Used to play Gradius with my older brother in the 80s. He was great with all the games. Recently found an original Nintendo NES and bought him and me a console each. He played Gradius like he never stopped all those years in between, still good at it! Sadly Bro passed from cancer last August2021. Will share this video with his two young sons. When I watch this video it’s like I was watching how my bro used to play. Thank you for this! I’ll have to play it once again in his honor and maybe challenge his boys to a game too. Like we used to do during our childhood.
Thank you for sharing your story!
AFTER ALMOST 30 YEARS OF NOT SEEING THIS GAME I REMEMBER THE LEVEL 1 TUNE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me too!!!!!!!
Me too
Yeah me too
The composer for this game was only 17 years old when the game came out, and it was the first game she ever composed for. It's also one of the earliest games I can think of that has a song playing during the level. What a debut!
instant memories :D i think i never passed level 6 :O
Beating this game when I was 10 years is still the greatest achievement in my life. The only way to beat this game is with no deaths. If you die in a later level you're never going to power up again.
zorchy • 6mo ago : Gradius
I used to record with a Walkman the games I beat. I recorded the songs playing at the ending and would have a beat game list saved using windows 3.1 note and a diskette. Good days.
Man, everyone here playing this game in their childhood. I just discovered it and I'm obsessed. Im glad it gets to be part of my childhood as well.
Aye yo same. I'm 18 years old.
I discovered it just a few years back at 20-ish old as part of a loose bundle of NES games I got with the console, been one of my favorites on the system ever since. It's amazing how a game that's almost four decades old can still feel so kinetically pleasing in terms of gameplay.
never finished this game as a kid. did it last night on my nes mini. so satisfied
You earned my respect. I never got to experience it past the 4th stage. Awesome work.
Whoever did this, absolute legend
Highest level I got to was 3 ur a legend my friend
Opening tune is so cosmic man... One of the best things 8 bit has ever created...
This Game was hard. Thanks for the memories. For a second I went back to 1989.
NES classic edition conformed
Correct. All of my nes videos are played on a real nes with the real carts. I don't use emulators or nes classic edition.
The early age of bullet hells. Laser HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Double is better when there are lots of enemies everywhere.
I generally use Double on the stages, and Laser on the bosses.
Thank you for the notes. Here I wonder how can you fire so fast without turbo. My thumbs sore after playing this game.
Also I'm not a big fan of laser weapon. I need a good reflex to deal with enemies and I'm really clumsy with shumps. Double is better for me as it covers more area, so I don't have to manuever too much.
Josuke likes this
Now that's impressive
Thank you for this playthrough! This is how the game is meant to be played, and still be human! I had to look through 4 other playthroughs which were played in an extremely boneheaded way of getting so many speed ups at the beginning, instead of the more rational missile, option, etc. I couldn’t think of any reason why someone would do this due to the danger of crashing, but now I suspect they were cheating and playing at much slower speed, thus needing the speed up to not feel so slow in real life, and then they sped up the video later for uploading to TH-cam.
In gradius 3 i really love the soundtrack of the Moai stage😊
im trying to remake this game in java just as a personal experiment
This is my first time seeing Gradius 1 and I’m surprised there isn’t more variety among the stage bosses. But still fun to watch, good playthrough.
My teenage years playing Nintendo Family Computer... lots of memories... and its confirmed that playing these games can help & maintain good mental health, on average/moderate playtime. Just balance it.
Just played this game on an emulator for first time since playing it on console about 15 years ago. I think I made it to the second level on console. Used state save abuse like crazy in order to beat this game on the emulator and it was very fun. Ended up with a score of 256,200. Quite short of yours as you are obviously a complete master at this game. I eventually figured out I couldn't have all the upgrades and had to leave one by the wayside. I got the 3 speedups as you did. I decided any more than that was too fast. For the majority of the game, however, I chose the double instead of the laser and now see that is not the smartest choice except for that last level. Lots of those rock arm monsters on level 5 I simply evaded rather than destroyed, for instance. You only needed 2 shield replacements whereas I needed about 7 or 8. Major props to you!
Oh! and the music from the 2nd part of level 4 here is some of the best video game music I have ever heard! And I have played about 100 NES/SNES games. Rivals much of the music Capcom came up with for their Mega Man series. The chord progression in this Gradius 4-2 is a little similar to "Elecman" in the first Mega Man for NES.
Thanks! I totally agree with you about the stage 4 music, it's awesome. If you like that you should definitely check out the hidden remix track from the arcade version of Gradius III: th-cam.com/video/XuYKhG6KEMs/w-d-xo.html. It's amazing!
beast mode activte
If you liked it, you should try Dominus Solaris. It's a new shoot em up game similar to this with pixel art graphics mixed with modern lighting
I remember when first time t past that trapped last level and i met the final boss and i was scare to think he’s unbeaten but bro was a dead brain 🧠😂😂🤣
I like that oldschool arcade gardious 1983
Nes nes games 1983 is very good year
When it came to the talisman statue level, I didn't spare those talisman statues because I would obliterate many as possible when I first played this game.
This game sucks. Life force is the game you want to play.
愛新持栄隊総館超久保田勉ゲーム新大臣!規制緩和大臣!安全自殺対策大臣!地方活性化大臣!仕事対策大臣!
This and Lifeforce on the NES, loved these games