Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection

If you're buying this primarily for the Gradius games, get Gradius Origins instead. There's a lot more in there, including optional bugfixes-- there's 21 games in total in that collection after you unlock the bonus stuff. If you want Ajax, Twinbee, Haunted Castle, Scramble, or Thunder Cross? They're a bit barebones in this collection, but they're decently emulated. Don't expect much in the way of extras. You get the US/World and Japanese versions of each game (in the case of Salamander, this means you get the original Salamander and the US version of Life Force, but NOT the Japanese Life Force-- there IS a difference between the three versions and it's substantial.) and some basic achievements. Suggestion: Pick it up when it's on sale around Summer/Christmas because the collection is half-Gradius and there's a new, much better way to play those.

A great selection of Konami classic shoot em ups from the 1980s! in one neat package! I'll start by stating I have played every single one of these games exclusively on controller, I have not tried keyboard controls so this review will be based on that. I've also never had any graphic or audio issues either, all games performed flawlessly for me. That said one minor complaint is the game does NOT like if you click onto another window, you have to F11 to resize it again, which is annoying. The games themselves are historic, some of these early games were the foundation of the shoot em up genre as we know it, Gradius/Nemesis might be annoying and unfair, some would even say badly designed, but bear in mind when it first released in arcades it was GROUNDBREAKING at the time, some of its mechanics may seem dated today but were new and exciting back in the 80s! and remember folks, these games were designed to squeeze every coin out of players! Now let's talk Haunted Castle, it is an awful game, Castlevania? nah! think Clunkyvania!, awkward hitboxes, horrible controls, bosses that really REALLY take the piss, and some REALLY annoying enemy placement, however the graphics look fantastic! and the soundtrack? SUPERB! however I do recommend the Haunted Castle Remaster from Dominus Collection if you want a PROPER modernised version of the game. If you're an old school gamer who likes achievements and retro hard difficulty, then by all means go for this! remote-play worked for me too on this collection (unlike Contra Collection) and stick that CRT filter on while you're at it for the retro experience! Overall I recommend this collection, it's not perfect but I still had a blast hearing LASER! SHIELD! SPEED-UP! in that GLORIOUS 80s synthesized voice playing Salamander! and some of the music in these games is absolutely PHENOMENAL! the tracks will be stuck in your head for DAYS! Overall pick this up cheap if you can and enjoy some retro nostalgia with save states, unlimited quarters! and some REALLY cheap deaths!

This negative review is just a matter of timing. I gladly snapped this up back when it launched, but now there is a better version of Haunted Castle available with the Castlevania Dominus Collection, and these and more arcade Gradius games will be available with Gradius Origins. It's tough to recommend based just on what is left.

맛좋은 레트로 슈팅게임이 잔뜩 있다. 나에겐 모든것이 장점. 굳이 단점을 뽑자면 .... 도전과제가 일본어판으로는 해금이 안되는것....

Just download them for free. Konami is just trying to milk us for money. I got this really cheap but it's still underwelming unfortunately.

Seems to be a relatively nice collection filled mostly with Konami's shooting games. Sure, Gradius Origns exist if you're there only for Gradius games, however for it's cheap price tag it's a neat one to own, I'll probably go for occasional Gradius runs in this one every once in a while. Also, another downside i can think of for this collection is that there are no additional ports packed in. Would be pretty funny if they packed this one with every single port of Gradius, which has been ported to every single device back then and probably can run on anything that has screen, dpad and 2 buttons. Why Konami did go as far as putting Gradius on MSX? Don't ask me, i did not asked Konami either.

12min やってみた感想です。 実行するとフルスクリーンになるのやめてください。 GRADIUS と ドラキュラ を１プレイしました。 どちらも１ステージすらクリアできませんでした。 テンキーが使えなくて詰みました。 矢印キーだと左上が押せません。 メニュー全体の操作キーが変更できません。 ゲーム開始する前に一括でキー設定できるといいのに、と思いました。 コントローラの人は普通にできるのでしょうか？私にはわかりませんが。 操作性が微妙です。 もっとさくさくメニュー操作できればより楽しめるのではないかと思いました。 でも、楽しめる人には楽しめるのではないかと思います。 スチームの評価でこのゲームをおすすめしますか？ に「どちらでもない」項目を追加してほしい。 あと紹介動画の効果音がうざい。しつこい。うるさい。 普通にプレイしてる動画だけ並べてくれるだけでよい。

Good arcade games collections! This wonderful time is timeless forever.