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After this game Okamoto left Konami and joined Capcom, so the only games he worked on while at Konami are Time Pilot and this one, 2 in all.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the game scored a total of 23.
In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by the game magazine Family Computer Magazine the rating is as follows, at 15.70 out of 25.
Shooters like this one are called "tunnel shooters" or "tube shooters"; it was the genre's next hit after Atari's Tempest (1980).
The game was made with reference to Namco's "Galaga". The reason the player's ship was made able to move 360° was that "in Galaga it was unreasonable that a ship cornered at the edge of the screen could move no further and was destroyed, so we wanted to do something about it".
Gyruss is the second and last game Yoshiki Okamoto designed for Konami, after Time Pilot.
A version for the ZX Spectrum was coded but never released.
Gyruss is included in the compilation Konami 80's Arcade Gallery, released for both the arcade and PlayStation (known as Konami 80's AC Special in western arcades and Konami Arcade Classics in the North American PlayStation version).
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