Parodius - Michika's Challenge! (GameandMaim)
5Originally Published on Aug 5, 2016
Here I am re-uploading the series 'Michika's Challenge!' where Michika and I took on a series of classic games. These were all originally posted on the GameandMaim channel which an be found here: http://ow.ly/SJVG30dlNi8
Original description:
"Michika has no idea what is going on in the bizarre Super Nintendo shooter Parodius!
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The Parodius (パロディウス) is a series of horizontally scrolling shooter games developed by Konami. The games are tongue-in-cheek parodies of Gradius, hence the name (Parodius is a portmanteau of Parody and Gradius). It also parodies many other Konami franchises, including Antarctic Adventure, Castlevania, Xexex, Axelay, Thunder Cross, Taisen Puzzle-Dama, Space Manbow, Ganbare Goemon, Lethal Enforcers, Tokimeki Memorial and TwinBee.
There are Six games in the Parodius series (arranged by title, year of its debut and original platform) In addition, three Pachislot games based on the characters were released in 1998 and 2010.: Parodius: The Octopus Saves the Earth (1988, MSX) Parodius! From Myth to Laughter (1990, arcade) Parodius! Deluxe Edition (2004, Mobile Phone, for Konami Net DX) Fantastic Parodius - Pursue the Glory of the Past (1994, arcade) Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius (1995, Super Famicom) Sexy Parodius (1996, arcade) Paro Wars (1997, PlayStation) Little Pirates (1998, Pachislot) CR Parodius Da! EX (2000, Pachinko) CR Parodius Da! ZE (2000, Pachinko) CR Parodius Da! 2 (2000, Pachinko) CR Saikoro Tin Douty (2004, Pachinko) CR Gokujō Parodius! (2006, Pachinko) Gokuraku Parodius (2010, Pachislot) Gokuraku Parodius A (2010, Pachislot)
Numerous ports have been created. The Octopus Saves the Earth was converted to mobile phones, to Virtual Console of the Wii and Wii U and to EGG Project from Windows Store. Parodius Da! －Shinwa kara Owarai e－ was ported to the Game Boy, Famicom (NES), Super Famicom (SNES), PC Engine, PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Gokujō Parodius! was ported to the Super Famicom, PlayStation and Saturn. The PlayStation and Saturn versions were a combined release of Parodius Da! －Shinwa kara Owarai e－ and Gokujō Parodius! called Gokujō Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack. The last two titles were also released on both the PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
A compilation of all Parodius games (with the exception of Paro Wars) titled Parodius Portable have been released for the Sony PSP as a UMD release on January 2007 in Japan. A digital version for the PSP Go (a version of the PSP that lacks the UMD drive) was also made available worldwide for the PlayStation Network.
The first three episodes of the series were released in Japan for cell phones.
Only a few of the games were released outside Japan: Parodius Da! －Shinwa kara Owarai e－ and Gokujō Parodius! were released in Europe (as Parodius and Fantastic Journey respectively), but none of the games were released in the United States.
There is also a spin-off named Paro Wars. This game is a turn-based strategy game based on Cosmic Wars, which plays similar to the Nintendo Wars series. Aside from Pentarou, only some of the Parodius-native characters (Octopus and the like) appear in this game.
In July 1998, it was released a Parodius themed pachislot machine named Little Pirates (リトルパイレーツ ritorupairētsu?).
Finally, two pachislot machines, Gokuraku Parodius and Gokuraku Parodius A, were released in September 2010.
In addition, several pachinko machines based on Parodius universe were released in Japan, such as CR Parodius Da in 2000, CR Saikoro Tin Douty in 2004 and CR Gokujō Parodius in 2006."