In the case of Konami, this subsidiary was known as Ultra Games, and many of Konami titles were published in North America under their banner, including Metal Gear, Gyruss, Skate or Die !, the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games and Snake's Revenge ( a sequel to the original Metal Gear made specifically for the western market ).

Gyruss was licensed to Centuri in the United States, and was ported to numerous games consoles and home computers.

Gyruss was the second and last game Yoshiki Okamoto designed for Konami, after Time Pilot.

Gyruss is notable for using " stereo " sound, which according to the bonus material for Konami Arcade Classics, was achieved by utilizing discrete audio circuits.

The gameplay is very similar to that of Galaga but with an added twist: the game is presented in a forced 3D perspective, with the player's ship facing ' into ' the screen and able to move around the perimeter of an implicit circle-essentially, Gyruss was Galaga mapped onto a Tempest-like cylinder.

Gyruss was released in both upright and cocktail cabinets.

Gyruss did only save high scores in RAM, however, on August 22, 2003, Matt Osborn released a mod kit to save the top five scores after the machine was powered off.

Gyruss was ported to many early systems, including the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision

Gyruss was also slightly remade for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan, and later the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America, released by Konami's subsidiary Ultra Games.

Gyruss was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs in July 2010.

Konami is particularly notable for its arcade shoot ' em up games such as Gradius, Life Force, Time Pilot, Gyruss, Parodius, Axelay, and TwinBee.

Gyruss has a perfect emulation ( minus the attract mode ) in Konami Arcade Classics for the PlayStation.

In 1982, Gyruss, known for its stereo sound and musical score, utilized multi CPUs, which included two Z80 microprocessors, one 6809 microprocessor, and one 8039 microprocessor, along with five AY-3-8910 sound chips and a DAC for the sound.

Yoshiki Okamoto ( 岡本 吉起 Okamoto Yoshiki ) ( born June 10, 1961, in Ehime Prefecture, Japan ), sometimes credited as Kihaji Okamoto, is a video game designer credited with producing many popular titles for Konami, including Gyruss and Time Pilot, and Capcom, including Final Fight and Street Fighter II.

The Killer List of Videogames included both Gyruss and Time Pilot in its list of top 100 arcade games of all time.

Konami's 1983 arcade game Gyruss utilized five synthesis sound chips along with a DAC, which were partly used to create an electronic rendition of J. S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

In Gyruss, it enhances the graphics and sound.

This gameplay style is called a tube shooter, and Gyruss is one of the very few examples that exist.

Arcade Advanced is a compilation of six popular Konami games from the 1980s and 1990s, including Rush ' n Attack, Frogger, Gyruss, Time Pilot, Scramble, and Yie Ar Kung-Fu.

This isn't to be confused with the Game Boy Advance game of the same name, which featured an actual programming of the arcade Gyruss.

But the most notable thing about the incantation of these ex-liberals was that the one-time shibboleth of socialism was conspicuously absent.

It is notable that at this time he was writing with admiration of Cimabue's and Poussin's way of filling space.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

A notable example of this was the discussion of Christian unity by the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, Dr. Heenan, and the Anglican Archbishop of York, Dr. Ramsey, recently appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

If this was in fact Mr. Remarque's intention he has achieved a notable failure.

Lincoln's most notable criminal trial occurred in 1858 when he defended William " Duff " Armstrong, who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker.

One of his notable pupils was conductor and composer Hans Münch.

This work resumed however with the development of the so-called " Second Quest ", among whose notable exponents was Rudolf Bultmann's student Ernst Käsemann.

The most notable Logician was Gongsun Longzi.

The group was notable for using several vocal performers instead of having a single lead vocalist.

However, it does seem clear that his first notable work, Summa Quoniam Homines, was completed somewhere between 1155 and 1165, with the most conclusive date being 1160, and likely was developed through his lectures at the school in Paris.

One of Alan's most notable works was one he modeled after Boethius ’ Consolation of Philosophy, to which he gave the title De Planctu Naturae, or The Plaint of Nature, and which was written most likely in the late 1160 ’ s.

Agrippina the Younger was thereafter supervised by her mother, her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor, and her great-grandmother, Livia, all of them notable, influential, and powerful figures from whom she learnt how to survive.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.

The crusade was a notable success for Byzantium, as Alexios now recovered a number of important cities and islands.

The declaration is notable since, according to Livy, it was the first time that the Romans had declared war by means of the rites of the fetials.

This was almost inevitable since, with the notable exception of the generals ( strategoi ), each office could be held by the same person only once.

One particularly notable example was an alternate adaptor designed by BMUG and commercialized by Farallon as PhoneNet.

" They approached a notable Lutheran pastor, Friedrich Rittelmeyer, who was already working with Steiner's ideas, to join their efforts.