VC in Brief: Life Force (NES)

by David Hinkle on Feb 16th 2009 6:45PM

Life Force (NES, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone – Mild Fantasy Violence, 500 Wii Points
We say: download it!

This week, we've only one Virtual Console game again, and it's another shmup. Thankfully, it's also a Gradius (reminder: Gradius is awesome) clone, which makes it all okay.

Every week, we like to check out what's new on the Virtual Console. We offer these videos as a sort of taste to help you decide whether or not you would want the game in question. We also toss in our own two cents because we're pushy jerks.

Tags: gradius, konami, nes, shmup, vc-in-brief, virtual-console

Reader Comments (13)

i loved this game, hardly ever got far but it was fun

Gradius clone? Man, this is Gradius part 2 made by Konami! You are making it seem like this is a rip off of gradius which isn't the case at all.

I never apply that in a negative way, though. It's basically Gradius. I said that was a good thing! :)

This is a Gradius spinoff actually, there was a "Gradius II" but we didn't get it in the states.

This video is really bad btw, letting the walls close up on you? Twice? Total rookie mistake.

This is my first Gradius game to get, and even i know this is part of the Gradius series. >.>

By the way, Hudson, PARODIUS on the VC!

when i saw the picture i already knew david would enjoy it. If its a shooter he loves it. I don't remember if he ever didn't love a shooter on the virtual console. I bet if shooters only came out from now until 2010 David would be happy

heck yeah, Life Force was one of my favorite NES games to play with friends when i was a kid. Definitely a download!

I wonder if you can still use the up up down down left right left right code to get 30 ships like you could in the original NES version?

Oh wow, this is the game I thought it was. I forgot this existed, but I loved it back in the day.

Gradius Clone? As if. Although one could call Gradius V a Life Force Clone. Oh, also, Life Force and Salamander are not the same thing, at least not on the NES & FamiCom (or PC Engine). Similar, yes, but not the same.