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Salamander
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1986 shoot 'em up video game
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72Critic score
70User score · 29 ratings
Salamander is a scrolling shooter arcade game released by Konami as a spin-off to Gradius. It introduced a simplified power-up system, two-player cooperative gameplay and both horizontally and vertically scrolling stages. Some of these would later become the norm for future Gradius games.
- Released
- 1986
- Genres
- Shooter, Arcade
- Platforms
- Arcade, Sharp X68000
- Game modes
- Single player, Co-operative, Split screen
- Franchise
- Gradius
- Developer
- Konami
- Publisher
- Konami
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- publication date
- 1987-09-25
- title
- 沙羅曼蛇
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1986 video gamesAmstrad CPC gamesArcade Archives gamesArcade video gamesCommodore 64 gamesCooperative video gamesD4 Enterprise gamesGradius video gamesHamster Corporation gamesHorizontally scrolling shootersImagine Software gamesIOS gamesKLOV game ID same as WikidataKonami arcade gamesKonami gamesMSX gamesMultiplayer and single-player video gamesNintendo Entertainment System gamesNTDEC gamesOcean Software gamesTurboGrafx-16 gamesVideo games developed in JapanVideo games scored by Mark CookseyVideo games scored by Miki Higashino