My history with Gradius.
My first Blog post, lets talk about Gradius... A 'Shmup'. A 'shooter'. A 'horizontal shooter'. Does this sum up Gradius? No, no it doesn’t. Does it broadly outline the genre that Gradius (or Nemesis, depending on your taste and/or physical location on this planet we call Earth) lives within, sure – if you’re the sort of person that likes their entertainment neatly defined and ordered by general theme, you’re probably happy to hear it slots in the genre rather nicely. I never liked the term 'Shmup' however, back in the day it was always ‘shooter’, or if you were talking to your Nana, a 'Tele-game' (her words). As it clearly states, this is Gradius That laser . A mesmeric screen wide, single pixel string of blue hot plasma death, times by five if the Vic Viper is fully optioned up, instantly cutting a path through alien space craft and environmental hazard alike, with those ‘plinky’ explosions, the power-up SFX loud in the mix, creating an
