---
title: Gradius
tags:
- horizontal scrolling
- shoot them up
params:
  specs:
  - label: companies
    value: Konami
  - label: type
    value: game
  - label: media
    value: disk
  - label: systems
    value: Sharp X1
  - label: number of players
    value: 1 player
  screenshots:
  - title: title screen
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: ''
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: ''
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  machines:
  - /museum/sharp-x1-turbo
  company: /companies/sharp
  oc_id: 158
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230610150718/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=158
    date: '2023-06-10'
---

Gradius (Nemesis in Europe) is a horizontal scrolling shoot 'em up originally released in the arcades. It was one of the first of it's genre, if not the first, to allow players to freely choose which power-ups they wanted to use.