Gradius 2 [Model RC751]

Released on August 22, 1987 in Japan.

It was the first MSX game with an SCC sound chip.

Gradius 2 was a bilingual cartridge. As Konami was an international company with worldwide sales and roots in Japan, they needed to produce two versions of their programs: one for the Japanese market and an English version for the rest of the world. For some games, Konami decided not to produce two different cartridges for different language versions of a game, but put both language versions on one cartridge. This was a possible because the MSX computer BIOS rom contains a region code. Using that code as identifier, the game shows either the English or Japanese version.

In the original manual can be found a contest, registrations were valid from September 15 to November 15 1988. You should take a picture of the Game Over screen and send it to Konami. The Game Over screen contains a checksum of the scoreboard. Here are the lots you can win:
First place: unprecedented Gradius 2 Director's Chair, with his name inscribed.
Second place: Gradius 2 unpublished jacket.
Third place: Gradius 2 unpublished backpack.
The top 2000 players will win a card with their name on it.

Soundtrack releases:
[JP] [Cassette] Original Sound of Gradius 2 [MSX Version] [Model KHY-1021] (Oct.05, 1987)
[JP] [Cassette] Original Sound of Gradius & Salamander [Battle Music Collection] [Model KSF-1506] (Nov.21, 1987)
[JP] [Audio CD] Original Sound of Gradius & Salamander [Battle Music Collection] [Model BY30-5180] (Nov.21, 1987)