Gradius III

Obviously, there's actually some of the same developers from the Contra series worked on this for Konami.

more of that later as well obviously at the arcades it was developed and published by konami with the director in charge is hideyuki tujimoto previously worked on jackal also known as top gunner one of my all-time favorites commando in a jeep contra super contra as we say and then he went on for many years to work on the winning 11 or pro evolution soccer series later on r.i.p It was produced by Ozawa-san, who'd previously worked on Gradius III and later worked on Hyper Bishi Bashi Championship Edition, I think it was called.

This was released in the arcades, North America, October 1991, Japan a little later, November 1991, Europe around that time at some point.

I did check and it was available in European arcades.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, Gradius III is still $15.

Granted, it's got its issues.

That's a

mean version of Gradius III, but all versions of Gradius III are mean, so whatever.

Earth Defense Force, $17.

Yep.

And you know, these days I think.

you look at something like toss your notes like it's got its dedicated fans like uh gradius 3 and like right into but i think the main idea when you have these excellent labels here is basically uh you not only retool these games to like make it easier for people to understand jump in but also i guess make it more visually appealing instead of kind of having you say we're like and toss you know like There is a lot of parts where you're just kind of waiting for the screen to scroll and then you have like a lot of these tiny but dense like bullet patterns pop out and it's like, it has to be a little more exciting than that to grab the average person's attention.

For sure.

Okay, developer Endless Shirafu is working on a new 2D shooter as a hobby project titled Astral Blaster.

Gotcha.

The original composer is Mutsuhiko Izumi, who composed for the music for the first Ninja Turtles arcade game, as well as Gradius III.

And the new tracks and the rearrangements for the Super Nintendo port were done by Kazuhiko Uehara and Harumi Ueko, both who went to work on the next TMNT game that followed after this, which was Tournament Fighters.

Which was a good time.