@@WretchedNZ On FIVE Yamaha AY38910 sound chips coupled with a DAC? Yeah, that rocked. I want to hear that linked to a 5.1 surround, I'll bet that would just blow minds.
Omg my favorite game when I was a kid just forgot the name! Between Sinistar, Galaga, Dig Dug, Mr Do, Pacman Moon Patrol Joust to name a few this game was highly addictive!
Wow. Watching videos of these old-school arcade games underscores what a dyed-in-the-wool geek I am... as this game made my pulse pound way back when at the age of 13, and it still does (just a bit) today.
I love this game. The gui and the music is awesome. I've been hooked on this at my work. Originally stuck on dig dug, but lately it's Time Pilot and Gyruss.
Christ, down the arcade every night. So exciting just hanging around. I remember this game so well with that ace music!!!!! Why do we never realise how great things are until they've gone?
Used 2 play this at Kirkby swimming pool in liverpool uk in my school dinner time.absolutely used to love it .brings back good memories from about 30 odd years ago.
One of my FAV games, ever!! I had the world record, back in the mid 80s. :o) I think it was like 10,000,000 points or something like that. I played for over 8 hours, on one quarter, at a Golfland in the Bay Area. I went to over 60 Earths!! The game was so popular at the time, I'm sure those arcade guys were none to happy, that i hogged the machine all day, for a measly quarter! LOL However, the record only lasted 2 weeks, when someone scored 25,000,000. LOL Thanks for posting! -KJS
You did far better than I ever did. I was in Iwakuni Japan when I first encountered this game, addictive as hell but it was a lot of fun. I burnt through a fortune in quarters.
when my dad would take me to fly up north with him in a helicopter to maintain these remote telephone relay stations in the foothills (not quite mountains) we would stop at this restaurant before we got to the heliport for breakfast and I'd dump a few quarters into this game, it was one of those table arcades that you sat at and I loved it. awesome to see it again =D
Quase chorei agora, voltei 30 anos, o áudio é fantástico, especialmente quando você dobra o canhão da sua nave. Fazia roda de gente vendo você jogar, especialmente quando o "vício" já te fazia ir até a Terra sem perder uma nave sequer...
I remember how awesome the music sounded in this game (keep in mind this was 3 years before the NES launched in the US, pretty much the only things around besides the Apple and Atari computers were the 2600 and the Colecovision. Going from bleeps and bloops to this was pretty amazing. I've got this (and a bunch of others - huge collection of 80's arcade games) for MAME, still play them every now and then.
Finally!!!! after many years I found the name of this game, used to play it everyday at an arcade near my house. I could spend hours with just one coin. I remember my personal record which was the highest the machine had, was around 450000 points and still had 2 lives left but had to stop because the arcade was closing.
Don't ask me why... I wisthled Bach's "Toccata et fugue en ré mineur" tonight and I remembered playing this game in a small shopping mall in Causapscal, Québec, Canada, circa 1984-1985. Thanks for the video! :)
In the CA arcades, there were usually *two* arcade standups of Gyruss available. I suspect it was worth it for them to have two on hand to keep the bickering among the kids who wanted to play it during prime time hours to a minimum, and also have one available when inevitably the buttons/stick would fail, as these Gyruss consoles took a lot of button-smash/stick-slamming abuse.
I came here just to see this classic. Thanks for the post!!! I used to (as we called it) turn it over by getting 99999 plus and starting the score all over. It was a great time waste as a kid.
Thank you for this video! One of my favorite arcade games ever, and of course I had it on my Atari console as a teen. Wish you could have to to Earth though... ;)
Loved the game; if i remember right it took about 3 trips to earth to rollover; one time i spent about 8 hours on the game [one quarter] and my friend told me we had to leave; so i gave the game to someone else for a quarter [i rolled it over 7 times that day] and i think made it to earth 22 times before abandoning the game.
When I was told that this game used polar coordinates for mapping out paths and such, this made me pay more attention in math. Parametric equations too! Oh ya, the music slaps!
Gyruss is perfect in every way. That Music!, SO addictive as your eyes & hips gyrate in endless pleasure. I watched the whole 11.20!, better than watching latest star wars cgi movie😀😀😀 ...thanks ALP
I love the Gyruss, It took a lot of quarters but I finally,finally got to where "One Quarter" was the challenge to make it to all the planets...I miss it....and remember when you'd set your highest score and days or weeks later a "phamtom Player" would come along and match you or best you, I would think to myself,"Game on!" then go for it...great game the Gyruss.
je peux jouer pendant 3 heures sans s'arrêter, lorsque j'ai regardé cette vidéo, ça m'a fait remonter le temps, j'étais champion à ce jeu, et j'aimerai bien le rejouer encore si c'est possible sur internet !
has anyone ever noticed that Gyruss is basically Galaga with the playfield wrapped around into a tube / circle? That's not a diss - along with Defender this is up there with my favourite golden age games
This was available for the Playstation 1 on a compilation disc. On Japanese and U.S. consoles. awesome game!, music makes it even better. slike Tempest.
Man me and my boy used to go to the laundry mat in the 80s with one dollar in change and play the shit out of this game. My boy was the king. You rarely beat him but I was good too and got him on many occasions (pause)
Quantas e quantas vezes não zerei isso nos meus 11 anos, e não errava nenhum final stage a galera do colégio toda em volta babando e eu chegando a Terra sem perder nenhuma nave....ahahah
i think this is what birthed drum and bass... and dubstep? I don't think anyone else thought up remixing a Bach arrangement back in the day... and put bass sounds on the ship's shooters!
Late answer, but yes. My kid just played that part on the piano, and I wanted to show them how I was exposed to that song in the early 80s by googling Gyruss and ending up here :) My mate and I spent many 20c pieces on this at Springwood squash courts in the Blue Mountains. Problem with this game though is the stress on the joystick from trying to rotate around in a hurry, quite often the joystick in the upright had bad contacts in one direction making playing a tad difficult.
Cara joguei muito na minha infacia .fui jogar denovo depois se 38 anos. Estava tudo arqivado na minha menoria .obs: quando eu joguei estava com meus 46 anos
Gyruss Fans... new game Zamarian, the latest Gyruss transformation, is now available on Steam! Search for "zamarian" for some Let's Play videos. Gyruss lives on 4ever!
Genial video juego el Gyruss, de niño lo jugaba siempre, también jugaba al Star Force. A los que nos gustan los juegos de naves y tiros sin parar, elegimos este tipo de videojuegos, me trae muchos recuerdos el Gyruss. Y tiene una música más que genial, inspirada en la Toccata y Fuga en re menor de Johann Sebastian Bach, algo único en su especie!!! La música en verdad es de una película, que se llamaba Saltando Alto (traducción al español). Recuerdo que yo estudiaba Piano en el Conservatorio de Música, y luego me iba a jugar al Gyruss y Star Force, que tienen ambos muy buena música, que grandes épocas, inolvidables!!! Acá les dejo el link de la maravillosa música del Gyruss, la Toccata y Fuga en re menor de Bach: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zd_oIFy1mxM.html
When I was a kid I used to play Gyruss on Coleco Vision. I was good at that time, but when I retried the game, like 15-20 years after, I was owned by it! Very tough game, but fun! What is the main song of the game?
I was one of the masters at this game. I would fill the highscore sheet with score 999999. If l were to pass 1,000,000 points the score would reset to 0 again. Also did you ever make it to Earth 3x? I did that several times and the game actually resets to easiest level.
