🎮 Play Gigandes Earlier Online (Arcade)

Gigandes (Earlier) is an early ROM revision of Gigandes, the horizontal-scrolling shoot-’em-up East Technology released to arcades in 1990 on Taito’s X System hardware. Piloting the Round-37 fighter, you take on the dimensional creature Gigandes and the alien forces it summons after waking beneath Earth’s surface, fighting across stages on the ground and out in space. This is an earlier build of the game’s code than the standard release, but the story and mechanics are the same.

How to Play

Fight through eight stages, each capped by a boss, using the Round-37’s four-way weapon system: a power-up mounts to whichever side of the ship — front, back, top, or bottom — you approach it from, and you can carry up to two of the same weapon at once. Die mid-stage and you keep your loadout; clear the stage and it resets, so get the most out of your weapons before the boss goes down.

• Insert Coin: Shift
• Start: Enter
• Move Round-37: Arrow Keys
• Fire: Z

Tips

• Aim your approach: Power-ups attach to whichever side of the ship you hit them from, so line up your approach to mount a weapon on the front, back, top, or bottom depending on where you need firepower next.
• Spend before the stage ends: Dying keeps your current weapons, but starting a new stage strips them automatically — use up what you’re carrying before a boss fight rather than banking it for the next stage.