Athletic Land (1984): You play a child on a metro-cross-like dash across an obstacle course with a time limit. To continue to the next event you must complete each event within the events qualification criteria. The sports to play in this edition are cycling, the triple jump, curling and pole jumping. Hyper Sports 3 (1985): Four new challenging sports events await in this third and last installment of the Hyper Sports series. Discover the excitement of balls colliding, the silence and concentration of the billiard room. Pocket ball, one of the most famous versions of billiards in the world, is now available on your computer screen. Konami's Billiards (1983): Billiards is a pool simulations game. The gameplay options include 1 player stroke play, 2 player stroke play, or 2 player match play. The game features a split screen with two views, one an overhead view of the entire hole, and the other a 3-D view from your balls current location. Wind and ball lie must be taken into account. Konami's Golf (1984): Konami's Golf features a challenging 18 hole course and allows you to choose your club, adjust your stance and control your swing, applying hook and slice if desired (or inadvertently added). This compilation includes the classic games: I believe the cihp allows for multidirectional scrolling (correct me if I'm wrong) and without that the game simply wouldn't work.Īwesome collection, and thanks for the great post! No doubt it was amazing to play Famicom Gradius II when it was new.Īlso, thank you for that info on the android remake of Salamander.Konami Antiques MSX Collection is a series of compilations of MSX computer games released by Konami in Japan for the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn between 19. That may have been why Gradius 2 didn't come out here. It sounds like an orchestra! And if you've got an RGB monitor it looks pretty sweet in 15Khz mode.ĭid Nintendo manufacture ANY of Konami's games with VR chips in the US? It seems like they were all stripped out when the games were brought to the west, including FM audio. Gradius 2) board and while it's amazing to play on a cab, my favorite version is, oddly enough, the Sharp X68000 version, basically because of the MIDI audio. I'm quite jealous ! That Gradius 2 LP just kills me. I've actually another one (the black version) on the way.įuckin' A, that's an awesome collection.

This jacket was released by Game Glorious Japan a few years ago. Ignore the glowing effects and watermarks I made on it for Instagram lol. Also more interesting between level maps and what not vs the mobile version.Ī bit back on topic, some unusual Gradius 2 items I've picked up over the years and some very unusual Gradius 1 stuff for shits n gigglesĪn officially licensed Gradius jacket. The arcade version (which has been tweaked to work on a normal PC, as most arcade games just run on a PC anyway these days) has tweaked controls and a much higher weapon firing rate which really makes the game shine. but you really need to play the arcade version of it (only released in China). It's a lot like the 3D Contra 1 remake for Android and iOS from several years ago which imho is quite good. A shame it didn't get a proper release other than mobile. Played it quite a bit back when it came out. It also works on the Bluestacks Android Emulator and you can even map the swipes and taps to keyboard buttons which in turn can be mapped to a control pad/joystick via joy2key or keypadder software. The quickest way to play it there is with a keyboard with a builtin swipe mouse pad. The android version of Salamander is actually suprisingly nice and even works on the OUYA console. Eventually he let me borrow it Then when summer rolled around, I got to go to Asia again with my grandmother and was able to get a copy myself. His uncle sent him a copy of Gradius 2 back when it came out and I got to see and play it at his house. A Japanese friend I knew in elementary school had a Famicom and so did I. I was lucky enough to play Gradius 2 on FC back in the day.

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