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Gradius Portable Official Guidebook ~Legend of I, II, III, IV, Gaiden~ (Konami, 2007)

Konami. 2007. “Gradius Portable Official Guidebook ~Legend of I, II, III, IV, Gaiden~ (Konami, 2007).” グラディウス ポータブル 公式ガイド ～レジェンド オブ I・II・III・IV・外伝～. Konami.

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Gradius Portable Official Guidebook
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https://archive.org/details/i-ii-iii-iv
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2026-11-06
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© Konami; scan hosted by the Internet Archive for research citation only
Credit
Konami (official guidebook for the PSP release, 2007). Scan in the Internet Archive item i-ii-iii-iv.
Notes
198 PDF pages. The "History of Gradius" release table is on PDF page 6 (unnumbered); the Gradius II developers' interview, with its printed folio "060", is on PDF page 63 (printed folio = PDF page minus 3 there). The text layer garbles the release table: read it on the page image.

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Konami's 2007 Gradius guidebook dates the arcade Gradius to 29 May 1985, the earliest row of its table of the series' releases.PDF p. 6, History of Gradius tablePublisher
Konami published Gradius for the Famicom as catalog number RC810, with "Konami1986" on the booklet's cover; Konami's 2007 guidebook dates the Famicom release to 25 April 1986.PDF p. 6, History of Gradius tableManual
Konami's 2007 guidebook dates the MSX Gradius to 25 July 1986. Konami's European MSX cartridge was called Nemesis (RC742, copyright 1986); its booklet says it plays with a joystick or the keyboard, starts with three Warp Rattlers, gives another every 100,000 points up to 99, and pauses on the F1 key.PDF p. 6, History of Gradius tablePublisher
Konami's 2007 guidebook dates a Gradius for the PC-8801mkIISR to 19 November 1986.PDF p. 6, History of Gradius tablePublisher
Salamander went on sale in arcades in early July 1986, as the Japanese trade paper Game Machine reported on 15 July 1986; Konami's 2007 guidebook gives the date as 4 July 1986.PDF p. 6, History of Gradius tableMagazine
Konami's 2007 Gradius guidebook dates the arcade Life Force (ライフフォース) to 26 June 1987, in a row of its own after Salamander's.PDF p. 6, History of Gradius tablePublisher
Konami's Famicom game Salamander (沙羅曼蛇) is copyrighted 1987, and Konami's 2007 guidebook dates its release to 25 September 1987.PDF p. 6, History of Gradius tablePublisher
Konami's 2007 Gradius guidebook lists Salamander, the arcade Life Force, and the Famicom Salamander in its history of the Gradius series.PDF p. 6, History of Gradius tablePDF p. 6, History of Gradius tablePDF p. 6, History of Gradius tablePublisher