#gyruss

[crtpixels]

Gyruss (1988, Konami) - NES

Sharp Pixels vs. AV Famicom Composite via Sony KV-27S42

This one isn’t meant to be zoomed in on unless you want face full of warped corner convergence, but the Discord really liked this so I thought I’d share.

[arcadefan]

On this day in 1988, the home port of Konami's arcade game Gyruss was released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System. Tomo Yamamoto's cover art better captured the gameplay than the art from the earlier Parker Brothers ports and was later also used for the NES port.

[timwrightt]

[melonadem-personal]

GYRUSS - STAGE 2 (MSX SCC COVER) i really like how this one turned out honestly.

[bangjiazheng]

FDS Longplay [034] Gyruss (Fan Translation)

[head-vampire]

Gyruss (1983)

Centuri

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[orionsangelarcade]

Gyruss, Realistic Arcade Bezel using The Mega Bezel Shader

[raspberryspace]

8/27/23 - Denver

[valiant-if]

Can you tell us ten thing about you

Hi, anon!

Ah, which ten things to share...

I've been playing video games since I was three years old.

The first video game I ever played was either Super Mario Bros or Gyruss on the NES—I can't remember which.

I have a menagerie of pets in my house. Okay, it's not quite that level, but between me and the other person I live with, we have four cats and two dogs. Oh, and one pleco that's literally 20 years old. I swear, that fish will live forever. (Also one of my cats is 21 years old this year. She will live forever out of spite.)

Even though I am not a fan of the author, one of my favorite books of all time is Speaker for the Dead. I usually read it about once a year.

I'm a pretty big fan of Kirby. I've spent an embarrassing amount of money on Kirby blind boxes, the contents of which adorn my desk.

I like TTRPGs, both as a player and as a GM.

I can read, write, and speak a little bit of Japanese, but I'm nowhere near fluent.

One of my favorite movies of all time is Interstellar.

I'm not very big on Marvel stuff these days, but Deadpool (as written by Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan) is one of my favorite Marvel characters.

When I was in high school, I read the entire Twilight series in two nights just so people would stop telling me to read them.

And there you have it! Thanks for the ask!

[drstonetrivia]

Chapter 213 Trivia (Part 1)

I guess things were going too well for too long..?

Gen's drawing of Senku here was probably inspired by very early chapter cover images. I don't know why else he'd be holding an exploding container.

We've now got three interpretations of Whyman: the generic one, Luna's, and now Gen's.

I like how Gen's has arms and legs coming out of the skull!

Finally! The Kingdom of Science can watch Dr. Stone together!

As long as someone animates it…

Kenjiro Takayanagi of Shizuoka University is considered one of the main pioneers of television, succeeding in displaying the character イ (i) on his Braun tube display in Dec 1926. Over the next few years, he improved the image allowing more detailed images such as human faces.

By 1939, Japan's first television station began broadcasting from NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). After the war, Takayanagi Sensei's work was used as a foundation for other televisions and related industries around the world.

If everyone thought working on a second cell phone after they'd spent months making one was bad, they're not ready to hear about what they'll need to make for television broadcasts. (Senku also never changes...)

I didn't realize how big their other boat was. I guess things made in the USA really are bigger?

The Perseus not being the biggest ship anymore makes me a little sad :(

SAL 9000 is a reference to HAL 9000, the AI antagonist from Space Odyssey. It stands for "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer", so in this case it might be "Senku programmed" or even "Sai programmed"!

The "NES" (actually the Famicom again, both in the drawing and Sai's comment in the Japanese version) and SAL 9000 don't have the exact same specifications:

SAL 9000 is specialized for math operations and thus has a longer word length (16 bits vs 8) which allows more significant figures in the numbers. They've also got more RAM (SAL has 16 kB while the NES has 2).

The downside is that because they used parametrons, their clock speed (how fast they can do calculations) is slower than if they'd used transistors.

The large amount of ROM they've also got could imply that they have several built-in programs. Xeno's work, perhaps?

CRT screens only reach a maximum diagonal length of around 40 inches (~101 cm), as a larger screen needs a larger tube, and the thickness of the glass increases with size to handle the vacuum without shattering making it very unwieldy with the added weight and thus not worth manufacturing for sale.

Senku's here is obviously much, much bigger. Possibly even world record; the biggest CRT screens made were 61 inches (~152 cm) on the diagonal.

SAL 9000 has both air and water cooling, probably used depending on what's better for individual parts. Normally you only need one or the other.

It'd be good if they could get the carbonated water maker in there and ferment some alcohol faster too using the computer's heat…

SAL 9000 also has 3 phase power like modern power transmission. They're AC power sources, phase shifted by 120° so that at any point in time, their sum is 0. The advantage to this is that you don't need return lines for the current, so you can use half as many cables.

The games shown are inspired by Tetris (featuring Ishigami Village and Roppongi!), Pacman, a combination game of Gyruss and Tempest, then another combination game of Galaga and Asteroids.

The transmission towers can only be headed towards the dam, so we have an approximate direction for where that is! There's a few rivers nearby in modern Tokyo, but over 3,700 years they've probably changed a lot.

(Next part)

[tvpromopod]

Phosphor Dot Fossils: Gyruss (arcade, 1983)

They're zooming past Neptune, warping right through Uranus, and threatening all the planets from there to Earth. Phosphor Dot Fossils remembers the original arcade classic, Gyruss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wC2i50gif8 Read the full article

[sam-dugesian]

"Pomni", "Xddcc" and cheating

now we know swearing is not allowed in The Amazing Digital Circus

this probably also applies to name input

since "penis" would alert the censor program they were probably attempting to write "pnis" to get around the game's censorship software

hamfisting the letters P and N on the keyboard they accidentally typed 'po' and 'mn' in their haste resulting in "pomnis" but since there are only 5 character spaces we see the name as "Pomni"

i mean hamfisting the keys also kinda makes sense if you take the previous name as well "xddcc" i mean judging by the key placement of those letters it's possible they lost the place of the WSAD keys and were attempting to go left, up, up, down, down

this might seem like a random direction input but it actually might have been an attempt to type the Konami cheat code Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start a famous set of inputs in games first used by Konami to unlock cheats in many of their games in the 90's and subsequently adopted by other game developers as a sort of nod to the famous code

now maybe they typed the code wrong or maybe they typed it correctly for the form of it that exists in this game or more widely the universe the game exists as a game in or they entered it in correctly after first pressing left beforehand

at any rate using keys so low on the keyboard is probably to compensate for the fact that the user can't see the keyboard once they are wearing the headset

and also if you take a look at said keyboard you might see there next to those keys the windows icon key that pops up the start menu so maybe the key binding was set this low so they could easily press that "start button"

but what if the code isn't as wrong as we thought since we know of one game where "right, left, down, down, up, up" forms part of the cheat code in game and that game is Gyruss

in a particular version of Gyruss this code increases the graphical detail which is something we see when the amazing digital circus actually starts

now in Gyruss certain objects fly in a circle which is what we see during ADC's intro and though that's only a minor nod to it one thing that must be pointed out is that this code only works on a certain version this version being one that utilises the Famicon Disk System

now this is actually a very important detail since floppy disks for the FDS can run on a personal computer if you use the right software and even better than that Gyruss also had VR headset support

and just in case that wasn't enough to convince you

these horizontal grey units next to Pomni's desk is the exact tech you would use to convert the drives so you can emulate the game on a personal computer

also the black thing in shadow is a Hyperkin Retron 1 HD Gaming Console as you can just about make out those iconic 2 vertical ports

and of course sat in front of it is a modified Game Boy Advance and a flash drive data strip

so as far as i can tell "Pomni" is someone who works for a company that takes outdated nintendo properties emulates them onto new hardware and then alters the graphical content to produce cheat bottleg products

just like the kinds of things that would be sold in bulk online for unsuspecting parents to buy

and this along with the fact that the company name is synonymous with "Cain and Abel" from the bible where one person destroyed the other all in an attempt to steal their success says quite a lot

now Gyruss did have a bootleg called Venus that due to certain distribution laws ended up being massively successful in Austria and Germany where as the original did not

and lest we forget the situation Germany around the time of said events the 1998 German federal election in which employment was low and those with the tech needed were situated in the far-right swinging regions of the nation at the time

in fact there is quite a lot to suggest that this may be some sort of creepy pasta in which the remnants of the right in Germany are in some way cracking down or experimenting on and analysing people who don't meet their exact standards and moreso i suspect that the player is a man and chose a female character which could be problematic in this case

in fact with this knowledge i think ADC might be taking some inspiration (if only in concept) from a game called Circus from 1994

a game created using elements from Circus Charlie which is a Konami property from 1984

especially since "charlie" in this case was deliberately designed to be a gender ambiguous character which when you think about it SO IS POMNI

[dijidweeeb]

Gyruss is a shoot'em up arcade video game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, released by Konomi in 1983. Released in 1988 on the Nintendo Entertainment System by Ultra Games.

[kitchenlegrecords]

Instant Voodoo on Liber LImbia!

[bangjiazheng]

NES Longplay [116] Gyruss

[xolta]

Game Recommended list part 1

Xolta's Big old recomended games list Part 1 gen 1-3 edition

Atari 2600: Asteroids(shoot em up) Berzerk(arcade) Centipede (shoot em up)

Atrai 7800:

Robotron 2084(arcade)

Mario Bro's(arcade)

ColecoVision: Frenzy(arcade run and gun) Zaxxon(shoot em up)

C64:

Creatures 1&2(puzzle platformer)

Rodland(platformer)

Apple II: Arkanoid 2 (barke out game)

Atari 8-bit comptures: Montezuma's Revenge (platformer)

TRS-80 Color Computer: Dungeons of Daggorath(dugeon crawler)

MSX & msx 2: Bubble Bobble(single screen platformer) Penguin Adventure(super speed penguin em up) Quarth (puzzle shoot em up hybrid)

Dos: Duke nukem 3d(Fps) Doom(Fps) Doom 2(Fps) Abuse(platfromer) Bubble Bobble(single screen platformer) Blood(fps) Jazz jack Rabbit(Platformer) Gods(platformer) Sim City 2000(sim) Warcraft: Orcs & Humans(rts)

Warcarft 2(rts) Quake(fps) MechWarrior 2 (Sim mech combat)

Mac OS Clasic: kid pix(art)

Master System: Assault City(light gun shooter) Bubble Bobble(single screen platformer) Cyborg Hunter(adventure) Fantasy Zone(shoot em up) Ghouls 'n' Ghosts(Cbt sim/platformer) Golvellius: Valley of Doom(zelda like) Rastan(platformer/ Conan the barbarian em up) Zillion(adventure)

NES/Famicom: A Boy and His Blob(puzzle platfromer) Bubble Bobble(single screen platformer) Adventure Island II (platformer) Batman: The Video Game(bat man em up) Batman Returns(beat em up) Bucky O'Hare (platformer) Castlevania 1-3(action platformer/zelda like) Crystalis(action rpg) Dr. Mario(puzzle) Fire 'n Ice(puzzle platfromer) Gyruss(shooter) Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu (CCP Shill adventures) Kickle Cubicle(puzzle/ cute) Kirby's Adventure (platformer) Mario Bros 1-3(platformer) Mega man 1-6(super fighting robot) Punch out(Boxing) Power Blade Usa version( action platformer) Section-Z(shooter) Shatterhand( PUNCH) Snow Brothers(bubble bobble clone) faxanadu( zelda 2 like rpg) Metroid (metoridvania/kinda bullshit) Ballon fight(arcade) Donkey kong (arcade) Donkey kong jr(arcade) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II(beat em up) Tetris(puzzle) Zelda( Adventure) Zelda 2(kinda shitty but i love it okay) Willow(action rpg/ zelda like) Magic of Scheherazade(action rpg/ zelda like)