Another octopus, Takohiko takes Takosuke's place in Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius. Two of his offspring he used as options in the previous games took his place in next games: the first one, named as Takosuke, appears on Gokujō Parodius! along with Belial (a yellow female octopus). Tako, known as Octopus or Mr.Parodius, appears in the MSX Parodius and Parodius Da! －Shinwa kara Owarai e－ He appears again in Jikkyo Oshaberi Parodius as a narrator ( Oshaberi), his wife Noriko respectively narrating the second player at SS & PS1 Ports. Some of the characters that appear in the various games in the series include the following: Only a few of the games were released outside Japan: Parodius Da! ~Shinwa kara Owarai e~ and Gokujō Parodius! were released in Europe (as Parodius and Fantastic Journey respectively), but none of the games were released in the United States. The first three games of the series were released in Japan for Cell Phones. A digital version for the PSP Go (a version of the PSP that lacks the UMD drive) was also made available for the PlayStation Network. The PlayStation and Saturn versions were a combined release of Parodius Da! ~Shinwa kara Owarai e~ and Gokujō Parodius! called Gokujō Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack, released on both the PlayStation and Sega Saturn.Ī compilation of all Parodius games have been released for the Sony PSP as a UMD release on January 2007 in Japan. Gokujō Parodius! was ported to the Super Famicom, PlayStation and Saturn. Parodius Da! ~Shinwa kara Owarai e~ was ported to the Game Boy, Famicom (NES), Super Famicom (SNES) and the PC Engine Parodius －Tako wa Chikyū o Sukū－ included in the MSX Antiques Collection for the Sega Saturn and the Sony PlayStation and also made available on Virtual Console (WII).

Numerous ports of the games have been created.

Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius: 1995 - Super Famicom.

In addition, three Pachislot games based on the characters were released between 19. There are six games in the Parodius series (arranged by title, year of its debut and original platform).

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