Gradius - "Bone Planet" MSX version playthrough! (Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol.1 PS1)
0Playing through the first loop of the MSX version of Gradius in "Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol.1" for PS1, in the emulator DuckStation in Windows, purchased and downloaded from the Japanese PS Store on my jailbroken PS3.
My shmup playlist: • smbhax's Shoot-'Em-Up adventures!
0:00 - start
1:12 - bad starts ; D
26:31 - BONE PLANET
35:08 - arm planet?
1:04:27 - ending
1:07:00 - wrap! (w/ Nemesis 3 preview)
Critical save state failure (I somehow hit my Save State shortcut (L3) with like the base of my thumb while for some reason flailing my hand around, a microsecond before unavoidable death ; D) midway through the last stage made the last stage--where it delights in sending jerks in from behind you in narrow tunnels, wheee : PP--and then the last uh bit confused the heck out of me for a while.
And before that, those things with the tentacles that take a billion shots and shoot loads of shots and just keep coming one after another, sheesh!
I THINK this is the first Gradius game I've ever go to the end (of the 1st loop, anyway : P) of. Dang I love save states! ^ _^
This was "Nemesis" in Europe. Just doing two more of these MSX-to-PS1 port jerk scrollers: Gradius 2 ("Nemesis 2"), and Gofer no Yabou Episode II ("Nemesis 3"); more Gradius stuff after that but it'll be smooth scrollers. ; ) (Arcade Salamander is chronologically the next one released after arcade Gradius but eh I'm gonna save Salamander (PCE), Life Force (NES), and Salamander 2 (PS1) for later because a) they're smooth scrolling so let's finish on a nice non-jerky note and b) the first two haven't arrives in the mail yet! ; D)
PCE Gradius FAQ says you destroy the Moai (pronounced like "Moe eye") statues by shooting them in the mouth; I was trying that but I guess I didn't shoot 'em enough; I THOUGHT I remembered being able to destroy them by shooting them in the mouth in the NES version, which I very hazily remember playing somewhere back in the day.
Wikipedia says the "bone planet" stage is "exclusive content" added to the MSX version.
They should've called this game BONE PLANET! = D (Cue Bart Simpson voice.)
Man, looks like • Arcade Longplay [471] Gradius that totally anti-climactic ending w/ the awkward door tentacles and passive final thingy is straight from the arcade version. The identical boss fights with sometimes different pre-boss boss fights is funky, too! But they had to invent this stuff themselves--interesting to see how it was done at first. ^ _^
8/7/24
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