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Its cute characters such as the penguins and its novel stage development contributed to the rising popularity of the series, and it took No. 2 overall in the Gamest Awards of that year.
In the "Gamest Awards" No. 4 (1990) run by the game magazine Gamest, it took No. 2 in the grand prize category by reader vote.
In the Gamest Mook The Best Game, published in 1991, it took No. 14 in a reader poll covering every arcade game up to that point. The magazine wrote: "Just as the name says, it is a game that parodies the Gradius series.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the game scored a total of 25. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, it scored 23.91 out of 30, as shown below.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the game scored a total of 27. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, it scored 23.3 out of 30, as shown below.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu it scored a total of 29. In Monthly PC Engine the reviewers gave 100, 95, 95, 85, and 95, for an average of 94 out of 100. In Marukatsu PC Engine they gave 9, 9, 8, and 9, for a total of 35 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by PC Engine FAN, its rating was as follows, 24.82 out of 30.
This score also placed it 18th among all PC Engine titles (485 titles in total, as of 1993).
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu, the four reviewers gave 5, 8, 8, and 8, for a total of 29. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, it scored 23.54 out of 30, as shown below.
This score placed it 27th among all Super Famicom titles (323 titles in total, as of 1993).
In addition, in the "Best 30 by Category" printed at the end of the "Super Famicom All Catalog '93", a special supplement to the 1993-8 information issue of SUPER FAMICOM Magazine, it took No. 27 overall, No. 9 for characters, No. 21 for music and sound effects, and No. 26 for controls.
Computer and Video Games gave the SNES version an 88% score, and the PlayStation version an 85% score.
Power Unlimited gave the SNES version a score of 82% writing: "Konami pokes fun at its own games in Parodius.
It is the first port on a home game console to follow the arcade version.
The Game Boy version (which was also released in Europe) shows the ages of the playable characters, and only has 8 stages, which include stages 1–6, and 10 from the arcade game.
From Myth to Laughter, released in Japan as and outside Japan as Parodius (from "Parody Gradius"), is a shoot 'em up arcade video game and the second title in the Parodius series produced by Konami.
From Myth to Laughter on their June 1, 1990 issue as being the seventh most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
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