Gradius III

A nice-looking Gradius game where you are armed with the usual arsenal plus the most powerful weapon of all: the ability to take a breather due to the game's atrocious slowdown.

Nothing wrong with it if you're into these one-hit-you're-dead sidescrolling shmups - Konami is more than competent at this kinda thing - but personally I'm not really into 'em that much.