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Twin Laser: Last seen in Gradius III, twin sets of short beams.Flying Torpedo: Twin missiles shoot forward after release.

Armour Piercing: Powerful bullets that pass through multiple enemies.

Vertical Mine: Detonates after a delay in a large vertical explosion.

Pulse: Salamander's ripple laser, in a nice shade of red.

Photon Torpedo: Similar to standard missile, but goes straight through enemies.

Tail Gun: Fires backwards as well as forwards.

Laser: Replaces your bullets with a blue beam.

Double: Fires a bullet at 45 degrees up as well as forward.

Missile: Falls to the ground, then slides along it until it hits something.

Konami released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Gradius IV Fukkatsu Original Game Soundtrack - KICA-7947) on. The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Gradius IV Revival'. TECHNICAL Konami Hornet Hardware CPU: PowerPC 403GA 32-bit RISC 64 MHz Sound CPU: Motorola 68000 16 MHz Sound Chip: Ricoh RF5C400 PCM 32Ch, 44.1 kHz Stereo, 3D Effect Spatializer 3D DSP: Analog Devices ADSP-21062 (SHARC) 32-bit floating point DSP 36 MHz Graphics Chips: 3DFX Voodoo 2 Pixel processor with 16meg RAM, 3DFX Voodoo 2 Texture processor with 32meg RAM Interface: Jamma + Players: 2 Control: 8-way Joystick Buttons: 3 TRIVIA Even if titlescreen says 1998, Gradius IV was released in February 1999. The end-of-game boss is the giant head of Gofer the alien Being intent on controlling all life in the galaxy. Gradius IV features nine stages, with a large alien boss or ship waiting at the end of each. Game difficulty increases depending on how many power-ups the player has equipped, so it is sometimes advantageous to NOT power-up the player's ship too much. Occasionally, destroyed enemies will drop blue capsules, these act as single-use smart bombs that kill all on-screen enemies when collected. Players can activate the highlighted item at any point, after which the power meter resets. Each collected capsule advances the power meter by one step.

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These can be collected and used to upgrade the Viper's weapons. To achieve this, players must destroy special individual enemies - usually red in colour - or enemy waves that then drop orange capsules.

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As with previous games in the series (with the exception of "Salamander") Gradius IV features a power-up system based on a selection meter at the bottom of the screen called a 'power meter', that enables players to buy weapons and upgrades. When it seems that all hope is lost, a lone fighter screams across the sky and the battle for freedom is joined once more. Then suddenly, without warning, a massive attack force appears and quickly overwhelms the Gradius Defense Forces. Gradius IV is a horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up in which the doomsday planet of Bacterian is now long-forgotten and Planet Gradius enjoys peace and prosperity. Another first in the series was the inclusion of the "boss rush" (also known as "boss parade" or "boss alley"), a level designed entirely with only boss confrontations.Arcade Video game published 24 years ago: Gradius IV - Fukkatsu © 1998 Konami Company, Limited. This is primarily evident in two of the weapons configurations that are selectable. Gradius II has kept the gameplay from the original game, but infused it with enhancements brought from the spin-off, Salamander ( Life Force).

The player returns as the role of the pilot of the Vic Viper spaceship to battle the second onslaughts of the Bacterion Empire, under the new leadership of Gofer, the giant head. The original arcade version is also included in the Gradius Deluxe Pack compilation for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn and in Gradius Collection for the PlayStation Portable.

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Ports of Gradius II were released for the Famicom (under the shortened title of Gradius II), PC Engine Super CD-ROM², and the Sharp X68000 in Japan. It is the sequel to original Gradius and was succeeded by Gradius III: From Legend to Myth. Gradius II: Gofer no Yabou ( グラディウスII GOFER ゴーファーの野望やぼう, Gradiusu Tsū: Gofā no Yabō ?, Gradius II: Gofer's Ambition), known as Vulcan Venture in arcades outside Japan, is a horizontally-scrolling shooter originally released for the arcades in Japan in 1988.