Gyruss is an omnidirectional tube shooter wherein the player travels from Neptune to Earth. As in most shooters, things will shoot and be shot at.
It also beats Roc'n Rope by having not one but two members who left/were fired from Konami and eventually worked at Capcom. Oh well, I'm sure they didn't work on anything that successful after thi... Oh.
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Developer Credits#
Present starting at 0x1E9A in gyrussk.1.
PROGRAMED BY TOSHIO ARIMA
CREATIVE BY YOSHIKI OKAMOTO
CHARACTER BY HIDEKI OOYAMI
SOUND BY MASAHIRO INOUE
WE ARE MAKED TIME PILOT
(Source: Original TCRF research)
Unused Graphics#
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A sphere with circling arcs of light. Is it an enemy? A powerup? A planet? Nobody knows. |
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Graphics for 200- and 500-point bonuses (the used ones start at 1,000). The former is the score value associated with the satellites, while the latter is used when shooting the orange version of the unused sprite above. |
(Source: Original TCRF research)
Regional Differences#
Centuri licensed Gyruss in the US, while Konami distributed the game elsewhere.
High Score List#
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Konami |
Centuri |
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Centuri changed the top four names on the default high score list to their own. Makes sense.
Extra Life Settings#
For whatever reason, Centuri increased the scores needed to get extra lives, making the game more difficult.
Konami |
Centuri |
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Easy |
30,000; 90,000; every 60,000 after |
50,000; 120,000; every 70,000 after |
Hard |
40,000; 110,000; every 70,000 after |
60,000; 140,000; every 80,000 after |
(Source: Original TCRF research)
References#
- Domestic and Overseas Arcade Game List 1971-2005↩︎
- POPULAR CLASSICS INSPIRE PARKER'S COMPU-GAME LINEUP - Electronic Games Hotline, Volume 2, Number 12, January 15, 1984 - "Gyruss", from the Konami coin-op introduced last August, casts the gamer as captain of the Gyruss space craft, battling waves of alien ships as he travels from Neptune to Earth.↩︎