Gradius III

Gradius III is a Shmup game, part of the Gradius series, that came out in 1989. Fully titled Gradius III: Densetsu kara Shinwa e ("Gradius III: From Legend to Myth") in Japan, it was originally released as an arcade game, and later ported to other platforms. It is known to exist on the following platforms: Nintendo Super Famicom, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sony PlayStation 2 (packaged with Gradius IV).

Gameplay
You control a spaceship with which you use to fly through space and several different types of terrain, blasting at spaceships, aliens, organisms, and armaments. You collect power-up pods that you can use to activate power-ups such as speed, bombs, double-shots, lasers, options, and shields. At the end of the level there is a boss creature that you must defeat to continue on to the next level.