Many gamers of a certain age (this author included) remember the early ’90s disappointment of buying the SNES version of hit arcade shmup Gradius III. In magazine screenshots, the game’s huge, ...

As one of the earliest shmups to hit the Super Nintendo along with Super R-Type, it was hard not to love Konami's Gradius III. It remains an absolute luxury to have such a great exclusive home port, ...

The Super Nintendo port of Gradius III is notable for being close to the arcade original, with its large, bright and colorful graphics. However, due to the limitation of the console’s hardware, the ...

See, way back in the day, we didn't have any of this Quake, or Half-life, or any of that Silent Scope or Time Crisis stuff. When we wanted to shoot something, we didn't pick up a gun - geez, you ...

For those that don’t know: Gradius III is a scrolling shooter released by Konami back in 1989, but only in Japan and via arcade. The third game in the legendary series, it was eventually ported to ...

In case it helps anybody with context, the SNES has great video and audio hardware for its era, but a really regressive CPU — even calling it 16-bit is being charitable; it has an 8-bit data bus and ...