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Parodius for NES (Last Updated 3/24/21)

In case you don’t know Parodius is a side-scrolling shoot ‘em up where you fly a “ship” and “NES” stands for “Nintendo Entertainment System.” You can pick from 4 types of “ship,” whether you want auto power ups or not, and if you want the difficulty level at easy, medium, or hard. There are infinite continues with 3 lives per continue and you don’t have to start at the beginning of the level when you use another life or a continue unless you died at the beginning of the level. You can remember the name Parodius by thinking it’s a “parody” of “Gradius” which I’m sure it is because one of the 4 “Ships” is a cartoonish kid and another is a cartoonish bird and the enemies are pretty silly as well but it’s still a great side scrolling shoot ‘em up and it’s not overly hard like some of them. It can be played 1 player or 2 players, but when playing 2 players the 2 players alternate, they don’t play simultaneously.

The different ways you can play the NES version of this game are: buy the standalone NES cartridge and it should work in any system that plays NES games. Buy the Super Games 150 in 1 Multicart for NES and it works in original NES systems and all Retron systems except the Retron 5 and this is what we have and it works great in our Retron 2. It’s also on the Ultimate NES Remix 154 in 1 Multicart for NES and The 100 Best Videogames 143 in 1 Multicart for NES but not on the Super Game 500 in 1 Multicart for NES, the Super Game 400 in 1 Multicart for NES, the Unlicensed Collection 142 in 1 Multicart for NES, or the Pocket Games 30 in 1 Multicart for NES. It’s also available for Game Boy and has the same cover art and there is also a Japanese Game Boy version called “parodius Da!” that has different cover art. There’s also is a game titled “Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack” that is a Japanese title for the Sega Saturn and also for the PS1 but in addition to the name being a little different the cover art is different as well so it might be a different game.

For this game you really want to have a turbo controller, otherwise your right thumb will get tired of pressing the B button over and over, and SurvivalPartyStore.com sells them. For those of you that don't know, “turbo” is where when you hold the button down it acts as if the button were being pressed as fast as it can be pressed, and “turbo” is also known as “rapid-fire.”

In the game shooting some stuff will reveal a power up. Get one power up and you can select “speed” by pressing the “A” button (if you don’t have auto power ups turned on) or wait and get a second one and then you can select “missile” by pressing the “A” button (If you don’t have auto power ups turned on), and a “missile” is much more useful to get than a “speed,” so the more you get without using them the better the power up will be but if you lose a life when you have it so you can select “missile” or any other item it now goes back to where if you select it you will select “speed.” The order of the power ups is: speed, missile, double, laser, option, and shield, and then it goes back to speed which means collecting the 7 power ups now acts like you just collected one power up which is kind of a waste of power up collecting. Unlike Life Force and Gradius the power ups aren’t listed by name at the bottom of the screen during game play, they’re instead listed by name when you’re starting a new game or continuing so it helps to memorize what is what if you’re not using the auto power up feature. Power ups sometimes effect the “ships” differently, so for example a “missile” for the first ship you can select from is like a “missile” for the ships in Life Force and Gradius while a “missile” for the third ship you can select from is very different. There also is a blue power up that doesn’t give you an item, it just kills everything on the screen but does not effect incoming shots.

For a full power up, or full power, other game code sites say to pause the game during game play and use this code (but we couldn’t get the code to work, maybe it only works in the standalone NES version? We also tried other codes including the Konami code but none worked.):
Up(2), Down(2), Left(2), Right(2), A, B, A, and B.
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