arrangers: []
catalog: STS-030
categories:
- Game
category: Game
classification: Original Soundtrack
composers:
- link: artist/161
  names:
    en: Konami Kukeiha Club
    ja: コナミ矩形波倶楽部
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discs:
- disc_length: '12:01'
  name: ''
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: The Beginning of History
    track_length: 0:53
  - names:
      English: Challenger 1985
    track_length: 0:51
  - names:
      English: Beat Back
    track_length: 0:54
  - names:
      English: Blank Mask
    track_length: 0:50
  - names:
      English: Free Flyer
    track_length: 0:53
  - names:
      English: Mazed Music
    track_length: 0:45
  - names:
      English: Mechanical Globule
    track_length: '1:17'
  - names:
      English: Final Attack
    track_length: 0:58
  - names:
      English: Aircraft Carrier
    track_length: 0:31
  - names:
      English: All Pattern Clear
    track_length: 0:28
  - names:
      English: Game Over
    track_length: 0:08
  - names:
      English: Historic Soldier
    track_length: 0:23
  - names:
      English: The Beginning of History
    track_length: 0:52
  - names:
      English: Challenger 1985
    track_length: 0:51
  - names:
      English: Beat Back
    track_length: 0:54
  - names:
      English: Blank Mask
    track_length: 0:52
  - names:
      English: Free Flyer
    track_length: 0:55
  - names:
      English: Bone Stage
    track_length: '1:10'
  - names:
      English: Mazed Music
    track_length: 0:49
  - names:
      English: Mechanical Globule
    track_length: '1:20'
  - names:
      English: Extra Stage
    track_length: '1:32'
  - names:
      English: Final Attack
    track_length: 0:58
  - names:
      English: Aircraft Carrier
    track_length: 0:25
  - names:
      English: All Pattern Clear
    track_length: 0:51
  - names:
      English: Game Over
    track_length: 0:09
link: album/78976
lyricists: []
media_format: Vinyl (12" 33&frac13; rpm)
meta:
  added_date: 2018-07-10T11:42
  edited_date: 2024-09-26T08:11
  fetched_date: 2026-06-06T08:02
  freedb: 1
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 2474
name: GRADIUS
names:
  en: GRADIUS
  ja: GRADIUS
  ja-latn: GRADIUS
notes: 'Contains the soundtracks from the Famicom and MSX versions of the game. Liner
  notes by Jeremy Parish. Artwork by Ian Wilding.

  Side A: Famicom soundtrack

  Side B: MSX soundtrack

  Vinyl colours:

  Ship to Shore PhonoCo

    crystal clear

    blue with white splatter

  Yetee Records

    split splatter transparent red

  Vinyl-Digital

     purple with black splatter

  Coordinators for Ship to Shore Media, LLC: Aaron Hamel, Justin A. Martell

  Cover Artwork: Ian Wilding'
organizations:
- &id001
  link: org/1574
  names:
    en: Ship to Shore PhonoCo.
    ja: Ship to Shore PhonoCo.
    ja-latn: Ship to Shore PhonoCo.
  role: publisher
performers: []
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platforms:
- MSX
- NES (Famicom)
products:
- link: product/435
  names:
    en: Gradius
    ja: グラディウス
    ja-latn: Gradius
publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id001
related:
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2002-10-27'
  link: album/49559
  names:
    en: Attack The GRADIUS ~Challengers 2002~
    ja: Attack The GRADIUS ~Challengers 2002~
    ja-latn: Attack The GRADIUS ~Challengers 2002~
  type: doujin
- catalog: DYCD-2611
  date: '2009-08-15'
  link: album/15119
  names:
    en: 'Retro Game Anthology #11 -Taste of Gradius- ~fe...'
    ja: レトロゲームアンソロジー#11 テイスト・オブ・グ...
    ja-latn: 'Retro Game Anthology #11 -Taste of Gradius- ~fe...'
  type: doujin
- catalog: MB-0004
  date: '2009-08-15'
  link: album/16328
  names:
    en: Gradius m_box VIPER Arrange
    ja: グラディウス m_box VIPER Arrange
    ja-latn: Gradius m_box VIPER Arrange
  type: doujin
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2021-04-30'
  link: album/129568
  names:
    en: GRADIUS REMIX(↑↑↓↓←→←→BA Ver.)
    ja: GRADIUS REMIX(↑↑↓↓←→←→BA Ver.)
    ja-latn: GRADIUS REMIX(↑↑↓↓←→←→BA Ver.)
  type: game
release_date: 2018-09
release_events: []
release_price:
  currency: USD
  price: 22.0
reprints: []
stores: []
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/78976?perpage=99999
votes: 0
websites:
  Official:
  - link: https://blackscreenrecords.com/collections/distro/products/pre-order-gradius-original-soundtrack-by-konami-kukeiha-club
    name: Black Screen Records
  Review:
  - link: https://www.vgmwax.com/reviews/2018/11/21/gradius
    name: 'VGM WAX: "Gradius by Konami Kukeiha Club"'
