Arcade Longplay [354] Nemesis

[@tailsfan109_SonicSFM_Gamer]

A longplay that relies on pure skill, congratulations to you. Probably one of the most innovative shmups I know, and definitely a great one!

[@Daz555Daz]

Everyone says "R-Type"....sorry but no - this is the GOAT of horizontal shooters.

[@powerstones7722]

Gradius or Nemesis cause there the same

[@l1ghtd3m0n3]

Daz555Daz Nah, both pioneered the genre.

[@tonyleppanen6773]

Ahem to Scramble...

[@andiarrohnds5163]

i always thought r-type was chinese

[@ZX3000GT1]

Well, I played both and loved both and thus couldn't choose - both are GOATs for me

[@timrpbrown]

Happy days playing this as a student - recall getting twice round but the 3rd loop was nearly impossible. 20 pence went a long way in those days.

[@mikkifits]

Played this in Mitchells arcade in Fort William until I could get thru it with one life. ! back in the 80's

[@theinvisibleskulk4563]

I'm pretty sure this was one of, if not the first game where each stage had its own music... Magmax kind of did, but only on one of the two layers (on the other one two stages shared a theme).

[@limeninelemonfour6957]

How things have changed for Konami in 30 Years

[@rowancade9095]

i guess I'm quite randomly asking but do anyone know of a good site to stream newly released series online ?

[@EirinYagokoro]

@@rowancade9095 loklok

[@leewainwright3526]

spent some money on this bad boy in the arcades real challenge

[@wtfbollos]

played this a LOT in the 80s and completed it a few times.

[@gary72carol61]

I remember this in the day, it was such a great game but very hard. Watching this I would have died every 10 secs and I guess infinite lives would help me. He actually dies at 6:36. I watched carefully in case he had cheats on but he was dodging everything. Well played and great upload.

[@DLiberator78]

Very well played, this was excellent to watch. I always found this game so damn hard to play. First played it on the Commodore 64. Happy memories. Thanks for the upload.

[@nodarkthings]

You missed a major trick here. Before the first boss, position your craft with the multiples just above the 2 volcanoes. The lasers will destroy ALL the rocks and you will earn an extra life....

[@DJdoublevision]

Even better if you sit in the top left corner of the screen with a drop down of multiple lasers

[@OneAndOnlyMe]

I used to go to the arcade just to watch others play so I could listen to the music.

[@luislodosm]

The framerate is amazing

[@manonpiano]

WTF!? Did you got bored?? The best game over ever saw lol

[@Diamondblade2008]

The music on level 4 sounds like the level 1 music being played backwards.

[@Xesh001]

When I played this in the arcade and got to the final boss it was a bit of a disappointment as it was so easy! This was also one of the first games I played that I noticed the adaptive difficulty. Edit: Oh look! I had forgotten that I had already commented on this a while ago! lol

[@JAY1892]

😂 I’ve done that too. 👍

[@jon123423]

For greater firing power, Leave Laser and bomb pressed!

[@mr_rossi3312]

Best ever game 80s

[@KangoV]

I completed this in my younger days, but second time round was insanely hard as everything fires upon death. Great game though.

[@NORMALLYRETRO]

The last boss (brain) makes no sense. If you wait, it explodes. If you shoot it, it explodes.

[@Lycanthrokeith]

Excellent playing, as always. I never got far at all in the original Gradius. I loved Life Force and Gradius 3, though, and I see a lot of the original material here. I'll have to watch an NES version playthrough to see the differences. Wasn't there a Game Boy part of the series called Nemesis? Any major differences?

[@andreinoooo]

Wait, Gradius played Konami Morning music on machine startup. Isn’t Nemesis based on the same hardware?

[@NexcellPride]

"Nemesis" is the Worldwide version export of "Gradius" The most significant difference is the Hardware when releasing: Fearing that the "Bubble System" hardware would be a failure outside of Japan, Konami ported the game to the GX-400 board, which was the chipset/motherboard version of the G-400 hardware ("Bubble System") That's why this version loads faster instead of waiting for warming up.

[@JAY1892]

Memories!

[@FelixTurner]

you are the master.

[@zxspectrum16KB]

Is it possible to download the chiptune music file anywhere?

[@gary72carol61]

Lol, I forgot in those days the Levels went from Very hard, Solid to Insane instead of todays more Easy, normal or Hard. My bad.

[@KUZE0]

I love Gradius. Thanks Azul Fria!

[@jaywhitney789]

Omg this guy is good

[@ouchiewowow]

I guess I shouldn't feel bad about dying in this game. Levels 2 and 3 always fuck me up.

[@musican67557]

ar walker The end of level 2 and Level 4 usually take my lives.

[@pchk1]

This was obviously not a perfect player, albeit experienced. A perfect player won't get killed at least in the First Round. He didn't even care to get high scores, got killed twice and completely gave up as soon as the Second Round began :'( Back in the mid-late 1980s I used to play this game in Leeds, and then almost every town in Britain. Gradius was known as 'Nemesis' in the UK. I used to play three complete rounds without losing one life and score over 1,400,000. Even today after 30+ years I still remember how to stay alive (at least in the entire First Round) and how to get max points from each and every stage. I know where to use DOUBLE rather than LASER. I now actually own the game on Supergun at home, which is the exact equivalent of the Arcade version.

[@seanmcgrath1991]

I use double on the faces. Much easier. What about you?

[@paulyoung1233]

He's got invincibility on guys...come on watch carefully

[@MarcaoJogando]

Fantastic!! Very good!!

[@wizdoodle]

Wow, longplaying seems interesting.

[@tailsfan109_SonicSFM_Gamer]

Destroy the core!

[@jonesynet]

Golden Gate arcade in W-s-M in the 1980s. Wonderful. :-)

[@Noggin-w5s]

Weston-super-Mare?

[@Noggin-w5s]

Sorry, I replied twice because my comment wouldn't load.

[@jonesynet]

Yes 😊​@@Noggin-w5s

[@aaron75fy]

only very hard? how'd you get so good? :o

[@noname-aquelequeveiodopaie496]

The music is torture

[@TronPachioftheDynamo]

Good ol' Gradius!!!

[@bign3ck]

I always preferred R-type, the guy playing this has some amazing skills.

[@stuarthough4391]

i know it doesnt even fight back it should have came with guns

[@scottvska]

Looks like an Atari Lynx game.

[@haroldpalacios7029]

Azul Fria, hizo trampa...

[@haroldpalacios7029]

¡Hizo trampa!...

[@aaron75fy]

02:20 is the furthest I got

[@haroldpalacios7029]

Hizo trampa.

[@dorgodorato]

lol @ final boss

[@paulyoung1233]

The guys cheating ffs