A 1-credit clear (1cc) of Gradius the arcade game, emulated via MAME 167. Recovery is ridiculous, so I suicide the last couple of lives to get things over with and enter initials.
0:25 - Start stage 1
2:41 - Start stage 2
4:25 - Start stage 3
6:20 - Start stage 4
8:37 - Start stage 5
10:51 - Start stage 6
12:12 - Start stage 7
14:48 - Start second loop
From 4:51 to 5:45 is the infamous Moai section, an iconic shmup level. I'm pretty happy with the route I came up with here, but no amount of routing makes this madness easy...
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