Imagine, if you will, an alternate universe in which Gradius is not the arcade classic we know and love, but instead a text adventure game. The video was created by shmup (that’s "shoot ’em up") ...

More than a decade's worth of games from Konami's classic space shoot-'em-up series is contained in this great collection, which offers plenty of intense action, not just nostalgia. While the Vic ...

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 ...

Konami's Gradius franchise has long been one of the champions of the long-suffering shoot-'em-up category. The genre has fallen out of favor with mainstream gamers -- now it's primarily the hardcore ...

Gradius III adds slightly more depth to the series while maintaining the intense challenge and solid space shooting action of previous Gradius titles. The Gradius series of space shooters has ...