What a collectors item! Too bad it is in japanese! But just to have all of the vic vipers and all of the cards...I bet we could come up with our own rules, huh?
Very cool shmup antique! Where were you in 1986, fellas? I was still mackin on the ladies in high school, kiddos!
Okay, now that is cool. I'm sure at least one or two people here know enough Japanese to muddle through the manual and figure out how to play for the rest of us.
Unlike the Gradius board game, I think the Zaxxon board game was released in the US. I remember seeing a Zaxxon arcade shaped candy box at a store once.
I wish those auctions wouldn't throw in the names of different game systems or whatever in the title to try to make it show up more. It's makes it harder for me to find stuff without getting something I'm not looking for.
If it was just to hash up the 50 bucks and get it in my hand, it'd be mine today. I love boardgames. But I don't think I can bother with shopping over the net. Sadly enough.
Actually noticed the game before this thread, and was gonna keep quiet on it so I could get it myself...(very selfish I know, but it looks so damn sweet )
This was the first seller I ever bought from on ebay and he has been in my favourites ever since. Great guy!
Odd. Those pics show the Korean version. Is Gradius called Big Hyper in Korea?
What ever happened to Bydopoly? Shmup-themed Monopoly, that was a great idea someone had a few years ago. We should revive that idea.
i'm pretty sure it was Roger Post (Postman?), and it was called Shmupopoly . he ran a shmup themed-parody contest with some pretty funny results early in 2004 i think.
Stormowl wrote:
i'm pretty sure it was Roger Post (Postman?), and it was called Shmupopoly . he ran a shmup themed-parody contest with some pretty funny results early in 2004 i think.
Yeah, there was that. But earlier than that, there was Bydopoly. I remember it quite distinctly it, it was right after I had joined the forum, and I didn't get the R-Type reference.
It was just a thread with a bunch of What If ideas. Roger went the extra mile and actually made something
! I feel my arthritis kicking in after that last post, Dark! 
