Gradius Galaxies

Gradius Galaxies, released in Europe as Gradius Advance and in Japan as Gradius Generation, is a 2001 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by Mobile21 and published by Konami for the Game Boy Advance. It was originally released in Europe in November 2001, North America the same month and Japan in January 2002. It is part of the Gradius series. The game's plot is set between Gradius III and Gradius Gaiden. Bacterion was developing a powerful weapon to use against the planet Gradius, but it was destroyed. A few years later it crashed on a planet and the planet gradually changed into a mechanical fortress. The planet Gradius then sent the Vic Viper to stop it.