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Gyruss (Arcade)

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Title Screen

Gyruss

Developer: Konami
Publishers: Konami (JP/EU), Centuri (US)
Platform: Arcade (custom)
Released in JP: March 1983
Released in US: April 1983
Released in EU: 1983


CopyrightIcon.png This game has hidden developer credits.
GraphicsIcon.png This game has unused graphics.
RegionIcon.png This game has regional differences.


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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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Read about prerelease information and/or media for this game.
Prerelease Info

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

Whoa, dude, look at the colors
A sphere with circling arcs of light. Is it an enemy? A powerup? A planet? Nobody knows.
You call these bonuses? 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

Konami Centuri
Konami OO Centuria?

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
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)