Golem

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Background

Brain Golem in Salamander 2

Brain Golem is one of the many creatures found in the Gradius universe.
He is a giant brain with arms and one eye. He is the first boss of Salamander and later reappears in Gradius 2's boss rush. He also appears in Salamander 2 as a miniboss... who gets eaten by the main boss.

Attack Patterns

• Salamander, Gradius II

Brain Golem is very easy and can be defeated by a beginner. His only real attack is ramming you, but his arms follow you. Also, in Salamander and Gradius II, he can fire small bullets out of his hands. He has very little health in Salamander and will quite litterarly die in seconds.
In Gradius II, his health was increased, and may take multiple passes around him, unless you are using a weapon such as Spread Bomb, or manage to get one of your options inside his sprite.
Depending on the version of the game, some ports of Salamander gave Golem a speed boost, pretty much requring you to take a speed up before facing him. Most ports increased his health over the Arcade counterpart.

• Salamander 2

Having apparently bred, he sends his children at you, backs off, and comes at the end of the stage firing triple beams out of his hands. Still not that hard, and the Mini Brain Golems are worth quite a few points.
Whilst he's supposed to be eaten by Biter, it is possible to kill the Golem if you are powered up enough.

• Parodius Da! - Gameboy

Now encased in ice, he wields traditional japanese items for protection.

• Salamander - ZX Spectrum

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ZX Spectrum Golem. These bullets you can see, there are several you can't.

Brain Golem gained a new attack pattern in this port.
Which amounts to him sitting there, firing a few odd bullets your way.
Some of which are invisible.

Invisible.

INVISIBLE.

You have to be LUCKY to beat the Brain Golem.

Appearances

Parodius Da! arcade.

• Gradius II
• Gradius III
• Gradius Gaiden (as part of O.V.U.M.)
• Parodius Da! (As a boss in the Gameboy version, as a decoration in the Arcade version.)
• Sexy Parodius (Cameo in the foreground of Alternate Mission 4.)
• Salamander
• Salamander 2

Trivia

• The Brain Golem is the icon for the People of Sin in Cosmic Wars.
• The Brain Golem also appears in the arcade puzzle game Kuru Kuru Lab.
• Alongside Moai, the Brain Golem also appears as a boss in the 1993 side-scrolling beat'em up by Konami called "Monster Maulers". It is called "Brainy" here.

See Also:

Gregol

Eyegol

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