Editing Gradius (video game) (section)

==Reception==
{{Video game reviews
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|ACE_NES = 890/1000<ref name="ACE">{{cite magazine |title=Console Wars |magazine=[[ACE (magazine)|ACE]] |date=October 1989 |issue=26 (November 1989) |page=144 |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/d/d9/ACE_UK_26.pdf#page=144}}</ref>
|Allgame_ARC = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Gradius - Review |url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=10182&tab=review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141115132823/http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=10182&tab=review |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-11-15 |website=[[AllGame]] |access-date=8 April 2021}}</ref>
|Allgame_NES = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=1205&tab=review|title=Gradius (NES) - Review|author=Weiss, Brett Alan|publisher=[[AllGame]]|access-date=2017-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210232928/http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=1205&tab=review|archive-date=2014-12-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|CVG_ARC = Positive<ref name="cvg"/>
|CVG_NES = 90%<ref>{{cite journal |title=Complete Games Guide |journal=[[Computer and Video Games]] |date=16 October 1989 |issue=Complete Guide to Consoles |pages=46–77 |url=https://retrocdn.net/images/9/98/CompleteGuideToConsoles_UK_01.pdf#page=46 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105072332/https://retrocdn.net/images/9/98/CompleteGuideToConsoles_UK_01.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-05 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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|CVG_PC = 37/40<ref name="CVG65">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=C+VG/Issue065/Pages/CVG06500015.jpg|title=Nemesis|magazine=[[Computer and Video Games]]|issue=65 (March 1987)|date=February 1987|access-date=2016-08-17}}</ref>
|CVG_ZX = 37/40<ref name="CVG65"/>
|CRASH_ZX = 59%<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/review.aspx?gid=3836&rid=6793|title=Sinclair ZX Spectrum Reviews|publisher=zxspectrumreviews.co.uk|access-date=2015-09-04|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025208/http://www.zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/review.aspx?gid=3836&rid=6793|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|GSpot_WII = 7.2/10<ref name="GSpot"/>
|IGN_WII = 7/10<ref name="IGN"/>
|SUser_ZX = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="SU">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairUser/Issue060/Pages/SinclairUser06000024.jpg|format=JPG|title=World of Spectrum|website=Worldofspectrum.rog|access-date=2018-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305034700/http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/nemesis.htm|archive-date=2016-03-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|YSinclair_ZX = 8/10<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/nemesis.htm|title=Nemesis|publisher=ysrnry.co.uk|access-date=2015-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305034700/http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/nemesis.htm|archive-date=2016-03-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|rev1 = ''[[Commodore User]]''
|rev1_C64 = 9/10<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Headley |first=Eric |title=Nemesis |magazine=[[Commodore User]] |date=26 February 1987 |issue=42 (March 1987) |pages=18–9 |url=https://archive.org/details/commodore-user-magazine-42/page/n17/mode/2up}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Computer Gamer]]''
|rev2_ARC = Positive<ref name="Computer-Gamer"/>
|award1Pub = [[Famitsu Awards|''Famitsu'' Best Hit Game Awards]]
|award1 = [[Shooter game|Best Shooting Game]] <br> [[List of Game of the Year awards|Game of the Year]] (2nd)<ref name="Famitsu1986">{{cite magazine |title=1986 ベストヒットゲーム大賞 |trans-title=1986 Best Hit Game Awards |magazine=[[Famicom Tsūshin]] |date=6 February 1987 |volume=1987 |issue=3 |pages=[https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/images/fotolife/M/MULTi88/20190410/20190410193233.jpg 4] to [https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/images/fotolife/M/MULTi88/20190410/20190410193255.jpg 7] |lang=ja}}</ref>
|award2Pub = ''[[Computer and Video Games]]''
|award2 = Game of the Month<ref name="CVG65"/>
|award3Pub = ''[[Sinclair User]]''
|award3 = SU Classic<ref name="SU"/>
}}

===Arcade===
In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''Gradius'' on their July 1, 1985 issue as being the most-popular arcade game for the previous two weeks.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)|magazine=Game Machine|issue=263|publisher=Amusement Press, Inc.|date=1 July 1985|page=25|lang=ja}}</ref> It went on to be Japan's fifth highest-grossing table arcade game of 1986.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25: '86 上半期 |trans-title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25: First Half '86 |magazine=[[:ja:ゲームマシン|Game Machine]] |issue=288 |publisher=[[:ja:アミューズメント通信社|Amusement Press, Inc.]] |date=15 July 1986 |page=28 |lang=ja |url=https://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19860715p.pdf#page=15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131230825/https://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19860715p.pdf |archive-date=2020-01-31 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25: '86 下半期 |trans-title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25: Second Half '86 |magazine=Game Machine |issue=300 |publisher=Amusement Press, Inc. |date=15 January 1987 |page=16 |lang=ja |url=https://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19870115p.pdf#page=9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102030942/http://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19870115p.pdf |archive-date=2019-11-02 |url-status=live}}</ref> In the United Kingdom, ''Nemesis'' was the highest-grossing arcade game of 1986 on [[London]]'s Electrocoin charts.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=1986 Top Ten Coin-Ops |magazine=[[Sinclair User]] |date=February 1987 |issue=59 |page=96 |url=https://archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine-059/page/n94/mode/1up}}</ref>

Upon release, the arcade game received positive reviews from ''[[Computer and Video Games]]''<ref name="cvg"/> and ''[[Computer Gamer]]'' magazines.<ref name="Computer-Gamer">{{cite magazine |title=Coin-Op Connection |magazine=[[Computer Gamer]] |date=February 1986 |issue=11 |pages=54–5 |url=https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gamer_Issue_11_1986-02_Argus_Press_GB/page/n53/mode/2up}}</ref>

===Ports===
The Famicom version sold over one million copies in Japan during 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/gradius/cover-art/gameCoverId,14540/|title=Gradius Cover Art|website=[[MobyGames]]|access-date=2014-08-02}}</ref><ref name="japanplatinum">{{cite web |url=http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-JPPlatinum.shtml |title=Japan Platinum Game Chart |publisher=The Magic Box |accessdate=April 22, 2017 |archive-date=October 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017061224/http://the-magicbox.com/Chart-JPPlatinum.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kent |first1=Steven L. |authorlink=Steven L. Kent |title=The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1: From Pong to Pokémon and Beyond... the Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World |date=16 June 2010 |publisher=[[Crown Publishing Group]] |isbn=978-0-307-56087-2 |page=510 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PTrcTeAqeaEC&pg=PT510}}</ref> The home computer port went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, below ''[[Feud (video game)|Feud]]''.{{Citation needed|date=May 2015}} The PC Engine version also topped the UK's PC Engine sales chart in December 1991.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=CVG Charts |magazine=[[Computer and Video Games]] |date=15 January 1992 |issue=123 (February 1992) |pages=81–3 |url=https://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-123/page/n80}}</ref>

The first [[Famitsu Awards|''Famitsu'' Best Hit Game Awards]] gave the Famicom version of ''Gradius'' the award for [[Shooter game|Best Shooting Game]] and listed it as the second best [[List of Game of the Year awards|Game of the Year]] (just below ''[[Dragon Quest (video game)|Dragon Quest]]'').<ref name="Famitsu1986"/> ''Computer and Video Games'' reviewed the home computer conversions and awarded it Game of the Month.<ref name="CVG65"/>

''[[GameSpot]]'' later stated that ''Gradius'' was one of the toughest side-scrolling shooter games available on the NES, second only to ''[[Contra (video game)|Contra]]''.<ref name="GSpot">{{cite web|url=https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/gradius-review/1900-6164377/|author=Ryan Davis|title=Gradius Review|website=[[GameSpot]]|publisher=[[CBS Interactive]]|access-date=2018-01-14}}</ref> ''[[IGN]]'' gave the [[Wii Virtual Console]] re-release a rating 7 out of 10 and has hailed it as one of the greatest classic side-scrolling shooter games.<ref name="IGN">{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/01/09/gradius-vc-review|author=Lucas M. Thomas|title=Gradius VC Review|website=[[IGN]]|publisher=[[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corporation]]|date=2007-01-09|access-date=2018-01-14}}</ref>