Gradius Gaiden (PS1) Full Run (Loop 4) on Hardest 

None of my videos are tool-assisted or use emulators in any way. All my playthroughs are done on real hardware.

Man, forgot how smooth, clean, fast, and colorful those graphics are. Seriously, this game is just great to look at.

- Hey, you can reorder the powerup bars in Gradius Gaiden! - Yeah, but how can that be possibly useful? - Hold my beer...

This and Gradius V are the only games in the series with mostly natural sounding voice overs.

This game has a pretty sexy soundtrack.

Gotta love the buzz of crt between levels when things are quiet.

This game is a bonafide masterpiece.

A great run! I wish I knew about this combo and strategy when I played on Loop 0 Normal! Shame about the amount of dislikes; guess this wasn't the gameplay people were expecting.

Amazing reflexes and control

"Do you think you can beat me? Such a loser" -Moai + Bacterians, 2014

The musics are so good! Gradius Collection when?

Limit on the first slot = OP!

Emulated the game for about 2 years as it and Gradius 4 at the time were almost taboo to me, couldn't play them as I had no real way to do so (nor knew of their existence). Eventually picked this one up on PS1, and then the double pack on PS2 that has 3 and 4 on it, problem solved. This one floored me as it didn't quite do the Gradius traditions the normal way, the Moai had new attacks, the volcanic level was no longer volcanic, and a black hole was eating the level up right behind you due to a gravity bend. The speed stage was also different as didn't really have the choose your own path vibe to it, not to mention it was in the last stage, only Gradius 3 arcade was sort of similar, but that speed stage was after the last boss, and quite short. SNES Gradius 3's speed stage seemed directly lifted from Gradius II.

This was a clever usage of power up bar order modification and Limit abuse. Never thought about it before.

The 2nd stage, MOIA stage & Event Horizon is the best stage in this Gradius.

awesome...ultra maniac

Limitを使用するプレイ初めて見ました。 かなりスリリングで「魅せる」プレイになりますね！ そして、ただでさえクセの強いジェイドナイトが、いっそう上級者向けの機体になりますね！！ とても面白かったです！

the bipedal robot boss at the end is so fucking sick I love it

I remember playing this a decade ago and still remember how busted the Limit shield is regardless of loop. The ability to protect you from anything for three seconds gives me the opportunity to be aggressive against bosses. And the power meter positioning helped a lot!

After beaten the game, And the game continued and loops to start endlessly. But there was a increases skill level loops during in this gameplay while Gradius developer for making this hardest loops game.

13:12 Moai: Shoots laser towards me Me: What in the name of Hylia!! :O

Gotta love the boss music

Skill Level: Limit :)

splendid performance 素晴らしいですよね

Even with the limit abuse, nice usage of the spread bombs! Esp in the boss rush! Also nice recovery when you died in the Black Hole level. I tried playing Gaiden like this, & it is MUCH harder than it looks. Accidentally picking up an extra power up screws everything up and if you're being bombarded by bullets and/or in a tight spot that you NEED the limit for, it totally screws you lol. I've done like u and used Jade Knight, but I'm currently trying to do the same thing with Lord British ( just cause that's my favorite ship in this game ). The limit abuse and the disruptor laser is actually a pretty decent combo imo!

Limit!

I love Gradius Forever

Juegas muy parecido a mi! Jajaja xD Pero hay que verte en multiplayer a ver que haces con sólo 2 option :)

"The circle lasers are cool." (-James)

It is asinine how this game never made it to the U.S.! I remember reading about this game getting ready to be localized to the West in EGM. The graphics on the pages looked AMAZING!! Sadly, the West would not get a mainstream console release of Gradius until Gradius 5 for the PS2.

28:35 Konami...we need to have a serious discussion...

最終面の動きの早いロボットが 耐久があり手強い☺️

Shits lit...

Victor Kidd : You think you can beat me with THAT?! Loser! Victor Kidd : How can you entertain me!

best combat training boss spider ever

I didn’t never think “Limit” is useful.

maybe im just slow but after playing gradius 5 (which is freaking awesome btw) i realized that the "speed up /option/ voice overs" Is the pilot telling the computer to activate those settings.

Adorava jogar.foi o único que chegar no final.valeu😘

this is better than ps2 gradius

Looks like a "greatest hits" of the series.

Nice run. I do wonder if you ever saw the hidden superboss after the boss rush. Im not sure how many loops it is in. But i think 6.

es increíble

Destroy the core!

Jade Knight

Wow use Limit Barrier.Good Advantage

event of horizon music please?

Ahora haz el mismo juego pero con el Lord British, Falchion B y Vic Viper.

We need a new 2d styled gradius. 3d doesnt just cut it for this type of game

He's or she is kicking ass at graduis who agrees

this and X2 need to be on psn.

What is a loop?

wow.

I like LIMIT and ROUND LASER

i remember this, think i had this, there was one game like this but it was a dragon or something .. does anyone know the name

Chewbacca 3:34

モアイがどんどん知能つけて、 レーザモアイ、回転モアイに☺️

This game was RGB before RGB was cool...

I alway say Gradius feel not like R type or thunderforce, see Gradius more organics enemmys

６面の植物ステージのBGMがいいね🤗

Destroy the core

To this day, I will never understand why we didn't get this game outside of Japan until the PSP.

L I M I T

Limit and too many options are the real drawbacks of this excelent game,3 options for normal mode,and 2 for hard mode are enough

How did you play this on an actual American PS1? I thought Gradius Gaiden was only released on the PS1 in Japan.

Even stage 1 is very hard

この頃のコナミは良かったなぁ。。。 今のコナミは、単なる権利ゴロの会社だしなぁ。

Loop 4 in 44:44 Wow

is this a TAS?

lol at the space swastika boss ship so awsome

My god, I had been wrongly thinking that the 'limit' ability was nothing but a useless crap...

これから始めますが1周目すら無理な気がする、

Come back here after several years and i just want to say that put Limit on the first ability upgrade is "unethical"

3:36 wtf

りみっと

What kind of stupid final boss was that?

The graphics and music are godly, but the Final boss is a lame decepcion

44:42

Limit

Parodius hahahha

Green plane is the worst

All this gam3s copy of nemesis 1 2 3

Ça c'est pour les pubs 👎

lol ure using cheat codes and u must have no life to play this game all theday