GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. It was just about 20 years ago that the Vic Viper, the world's best-known alien-armada-killing single-pilot spacecraft, flew her maiden voyage in the ...

Last seen in 2004 on the PlayStation 2, Gradius really needs no introduction to most gamers, as it's one of the most popular shoot 'em up series of all time, due to being one of the first to be ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Alien swarms and galactic scourges everywhere live in fear of the Vic Viper, and for good reason. This noble, lone starfighter has a long and ...

To understand how it ends, first you must go back to the beginning. Gradius was born from the 80s post-Space Invaders gold rush, created by a team within Konami's Osaka headquarters headed up by the ...

Mark Stafford has created the best Vic Viper I have seen in recent years. It would be amazing to see this model imported into a scrolling shooter video game. Though the Viper is a popular subject ...

Retro-games. Space Invaders and Ikaruga, Monkey Island and Super Monkey Ball, Donkey Kong and Super Mario 64, Game & Watch and Neo-Geo Pocket Color, 1975 and 1999, Pong and Virtua Tennis, Centipede ...

The masters of the shooter were given one of the genre's granddaddy's for their latest project, and from what we can see both the series and developer's legacies will live on. We spent the weekend ...

This is an almost arcade-perfect port of the arcade version of Gradius II, which was also known as Vulcan Adventure. Konami made no compromises in choosing the PC Engine’s Super CD format to release ...

In Gradius, you control the Vic Viper as he flies through various environments in order to take down alien enemy bosses. Several distinctive areas include a space level filled with Moai heads, and ...

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Though side-scrolling shooter series are in no short supply in the States, few franchises in the genre have earned as much notoriety and fan support over the years as Gradius. The Konami-developed ...