"I don’t know about you, but this week seemed very…meh. Plenty of things happened everyday, but it felt like the world stopped spinning for a bit there.
It seems like games also took it easy over the last seven days, as not much happened in the way of major digital releases or sales. Despite the slow week, some things did manage to make it out for mass consumption.
Gradius spin-off Life Force (also known as Salamander in Japan) hit the 3DS eShop. Originally an NES and Commodore 64 title, Life Force introduced multiple systems that made it into future titles in the Gradius series, including multiplayer.
Fans of Monster Hunter style action role-playing games (i.e.: me) may enjoy the demo of Toukiden: The Age Of Demons on Vita. I’m taken aback at how pretty the game looks on Sony’s portable. It helps that it plays well and is really fun to boot.
On the Xbox side, we have various discounted titles ranging from Tales of Vesperia to Call of Duty. Discounts range from 25 percent to a whopping 75 percent off – a great time to add titles on the cheap.
So there’s really not much more to look at, but make the jump anyway to see the whole list of this week’s digital releases."
- Allain Richard
Explore Gradius new and old in this new collection
Its nice they are making this origins collection. Which leads me to thinking they will have another that will include 4, 5, Galaxies, Gaiden and Rebirth.
Rewind, save states, god mode, buncha extras. They’ve got my attention! Haven’t played Life Force in forever
It will be available from Limited Run Games as a physical release, nice!. I want it in physical but the bad part is waiting for it to ship from LRG. https://limitedrungames.com...
Despite hardware limitations, intrepid NES developers were able to make a massive variety of epic shoot-em-ups with gobs of enemies loosing salvoes of missiles and bullets at a hero and—magically—the system handled it all like a champ. Shmups on the NES rarely even experience any slowdown. Amazing!
Yes! That game brings back childhood memories. I didn't have an NES at that time, but a kid who lived at the same apartment complex did and he was pretty stingy with his video games. On a good day he would let me play some of his NES games at his place and Life Force was one I enjoyed playing. My brother and I had an Atari 7800 then a TG16 shortly after
Gun.Smoke was what I always played. Became too much at times with all the enemies and things flying at you from every direction, fun game though.
Crisis force, Gradius 2, over horizon, the three best shooters on the NES for me personally.
Ther 35th anniversary of the NES is finally upon us and it's time to take a look back at the best classics you can play on Switch.
