Another great video, always love it when I get that CGQ+ notification! Just a bit of friendly feedback - I’d love it if you shared more detail around your own personal experiences/history with the game. For me, that was the best part of some of the first Weekend Rental videos and you haven’t done it so much recently. But great videos regardless and I’ll be watching every time you upload one.
I actually had a few things to say about Gradius, but then totally forgot when I was shooting the intro. It’s hard to keep everything in my head, especially at my age! Will try to do better.
@@CGQPlus completely understand, I’m 40 myself haha! Honestly though, I didn’t mean it as a criticism at all - it’s just that you’re a good storyteller and it’s always interesting when you share your own personal experiences. Similarly though, if you don’t want to, I understand and appreciate that.
@@michael.almondyes, Chris is the only person that does this the way he does this and it's incredibly therapeutic to relate to his vulnerability and his sentimental side
Loved this look at Gradius for the PC Engine! I remember playing the NES version a ton, but am pretty unfamiliar with the PC Engine port. I’m really enjoying this format, and always look forward to new videos from the CGQ media empire. Thanks Chris!
I just love the Gradius games. They are all fantastic, except Gradius 3 arcade. That one is just crazy impossible. Love the SNES port of it, even with the slowdown. The series has great tunes too. Great entertaining video, thank you.
the people that hate the pronunciations so much they 'stopped watching' are just trolls. people that really understand pronunciation also know that regions have different pronunciations. there is no right or wrong pronunciation. just regional dialect differences. there are multiple pronunciations for japanese worlds within different japenese dialects. its really pointless to even try to pronounce things 'correctly' there are multiple ways to pronounce it correctly no matter how you look at it.
I agree with you about pronunciations of game titles when we were kids versus now. We used to pronounce Gaiden in Ninja Gaiden and Ryu in Street Fighter differently back then because we were just kids and because we couldn't hear people pronounce the words correctly on the internet so readily. I prefer to pronounce words such as these the same way I did as a kid. It keeps the nostalgia going so to speak. I just chuckle when people correct me.
So I get why people think of Defender as the grandfather of these games but I always felt it was a different thing because in Defender you are really managing a single persistent space that just wraps around at each end. It really is a game about playing defense. I think Gradius and other shmups are really descents of space invaders and galaga rather than Defender.
This was a fun episode, the bonus level was legit. When you mentioned Super R-type it made me think how my mom bought it for me when I was a kiddo and at first I hated it cause it was so hard and no checkpoints made me so mad but like I tried it again a year later and finally put in enough time to get ok at it. I loaded up the NES on the nintendo Switch and played some of this and like got owned so bad lol! Keep up the great work :)
I've been wondering about that Turbonanza mod; it's quite recent I think. S-video is a good option to have, and Insurrection Industries makes some really excellent Saturn video cables.
there's a much more Arcade accurate port can be found on the PCE/TG-16/Core Grafx mini! It and Salamander Near arcade are my reason to buy a Core Grafx mini!
Great stuff as always! I have never played any version of Gradius myself, so I will have to give the TG-16 / PCE version a go sometime. BTW, I saw one top 50 Gameboy games list that had that version of Gradius in the top 50 of all time. I know you have probably already checked out that version, but perhaps you should give it a go sometime if you haven't. I might just go the same. In the meantime, take care and I look forward to seeing many more videos yet to come.
If I ever won the lottery or found out I’m Donald Trumps love child, I would pay Chris to quit his job and do this full time. But I think he would decline stating the pressure of trying to do good content so consistently. But I would watch him do a review of a power drill. The guy is a dude and it just relaxes me listening to him 😎
@@CGQPlus That episode you did a few years back was great, you talked about your favorite October fest beers. Been hoping for another similar episode lol. It’s my favorite time of the year. Always love the content in general though.
