Vulcan Venture

Vulcan Venture
Also known as: Gradius II: Gofer no Yabou (JP) Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami Twin 16) Released in JP: March 24, 1988 Released in EU: 1988 This game has regional differences.

It's Gradius II... is there anything else to be said?

DESTROY THEM ALL!

Regional Differences

Bonus Lives

The dip switch settings for the extra life thresholds differ between versions.

• Gradius II: 20.000, Every 150.000 and 20.000, Every 200.000.
• Vulcan Venture: 20.000, Every 70.000 and 20.000, Every 80.000.

Powerups

Gradius II	Vulcan Venture

In Gradius II, the second laser is called Ripple Laser (like in Salamander), but Pulse Laser in Vulcan Venture (like the US and Japanese versions of Life Force). As with the Nemesis set of the original Gradius, the following shooting orbs are called Option and Multiple, respectively.

Gradius II	Vulcan Venture

Gradius II	Vulcan Venture

To follow with these name differences, both powerups have different announcer voice sounds when selecting them.

Gradius II	Vulcan Venture

Also like Nemesis, the name graphic of the orange orbs on the powerup bar was changed.

Continue

Again like the Nemesis version of Gradius, Vulcan Venture has a continue feature not present in Gradius II.