Vulcan Venture

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Vulcan Venture
Type Arcade
Manufacturer Konami
Year 1988
Genre Shooter / Flying Horizontal

Vulcan Venture is a 1988 arcade game made by Konami.

About

Gradius II, retitled Vulcan Venture in North American arcades, is a 1988 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Konami. It is the sequel to Gradius and was succeeded by Gradius III. Initially released in arcades, ports of Gradius II were released for the Family Computer (under the shortened title of Gradius II), PC Engine Super CD-ROM², and the X68000 in Japan. The original arcade version is also included in the Gradius Deluxe Pack compilation for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn and in Gradius Collection for the PlayStation Portable.

Text from the Wikipedia article "Gradius II", available under CC BY-SA.

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Version Year Manufacturer MAME set
Vulcan Venture (new) 1988 Konami vulcan
Gradius II: GOFER no Yabou (Japan, new) 1988 Konami gradius2
Gradius II: GOFER no Yabou (Japan, old) 1988 Konami gradius2a
Gradius II: GOFER no Yabou (Japan, older) 1988 Konami gradius2b
Vulcan Venture (old) 1988 Konami vulcana
Vulcan Venture (older) 1988 Konami vulcanb