R-Type

1987

Shooter

Arcade

R-Type is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game where the player controls a space fighter named the R-9 to defend humanity against a mysterious powerful alien life-form known as the "Bydo". (wikipedia.org)

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R-Type

Genres:

Shooter, Arcade

Developer:

Irem

Publishers:

Nintendo, Irem, Konami Digital Entertainment, Electric Dreams Software, EA Mobile, Hudson Entertainment, Sega of America, Nintendo of America, DotEmu SAS, Irem America, NEC Home Electronics (USA)

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R-Type

1987

Shooter

Arcade

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philamental

Rated 19 Jan 2018

I'm not a massive fan of the shooter genre, but I've always had a bit of a thing for non bullet hell arcade shooters. R-Type may have been the game responsible for this as it was the first one I can remember playing. Myself and a friend used to spend our school lunch breaks at the local convenience store which had one single coin-op cabinet running it. I've played it more recently and it's obviously dated in every aspect but it's still a nostalgic challenge where I struggle to get past level 5

Rated 19 Jan 2018

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Antonio P

Rated 01 Nov 2019

Good game for Sega Master system. Way too hard though. Got to level 7 in this.

Rated 01 Nov 2019

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auritech

Rated 24 Jan 2018

I love this game even though it's super hard. Beating it was one of my greatest gaming accomplishments of all time. The methodical pace benefits the game, and there's more advantage to playing it slowly than zipping across the screen. My favorite version is the US TurboGrafx-16 version (for some strange reason, the Japanese PC Engine version was cut into two games), but I beat it on PlayStation.

Rated 24 Jan 2018

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