> Konami was somewhat famous for doing that-- I'd argue most of Konami's NES ports were > superior to the arcade originals, with better tuned level design and/or gameplay.
Not Gradius's. The arcade version is far superior to its NES counterpart.
The guy who programmed the NES port did a terrible job. He even admitted as much, and thus, the Konami Code was born.
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