Arcade Longplay [473] Gradius III

Gamers: “Man I hate Konami today all they care about is the money” Konmai in 1989: yeah the crystal level will definitely drive up profits!

Man, now I'm even more grateful for the SNES port. It added a huge punch to the sound and made the game more accessible. Still, Gradius is fun no matter what you play it on.

Destroy the mall!

I got a real love/hate relationship with the first 4 Gradius games. Gameplay wise it's a very fun concept. Pick your power up configuration and have a go. Great for multiple challenge playthroughs. The games themselves though are brutally challenging. Anytime I die in the middle of a stage I feel I should just start over. You really need the power ups to level the playing field. Gradius Gaiden managed to be a more lax challenge but for me Gradius V really hit the sweet spot and remains my favorite in the series.

"Cube Rush Zone "avoidance was so wonderful that I was fascinated by it ... Amazing!

tried many...many combinations trying to get through this game over the years. my hat is off to you player. you controlled the drunk basketballs very well.

I played this on the Arcade Archives port... my God, this game can throw the utmost bullshit in gaming ever at you. The infamous crystal cube challenge is among the most stupid hard challenges ever in gaming. The music in this game is friggin' awesome, though.

This bring back so many memories of playing Gradius III on the PS2.

1:08:53 "I was born...out of greediness of mankind. While men exist, so will I. AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHH!!!"

"I was born... out of the greediness of mankind... ...While men exists, so will I!" UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The Cube level in this game is INSANE.

31:00 The sun level is impossible. I don't remember something in videogame history that requires so much reflex and concentration levels like this.

Gradius III runs on the same hardware as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game.

This version of the game looks like pure agony, no wonder Konami revised the hell out of it for the SNES release. I wonder if it even had a role in killing shmups, by making one so difficult it was inaccessible?

24:04 Those tiny little Moai heads blowing up look like Kirby lol.

Gradius 3 was a difficult game. Music was rocking!!!

They just released this via Arcade Archives!!! Sweet.

With much difficulty I managed to beat the SNES version of this game when I was a kid (thanks to slowdown), but there's no way in hell I'd be able to take this on. I'm only halfway through watching this and already I've lost track of how many times I've said "Oh my god" and "Holy shit" out loud.

That was fucking impressive, amazing, magnificent, and just plain cool. Congratulations and good job. I am so totally jealous.

So you're telling me this was gotten past by a person, right? I mean, a human... Damn, just feeling I was "good" 'cause I beat Normal mode in the SNES version... Now it feels like I got past Baby mode or so...