One of the finest shoot-'em-ups of all time, in which you build up an ever-more impressive selection of weapons... unless you get killed, in which case you lose them all.
Publishers: Electric Dreams, Irem, Sega, Hudson, NEC, NEC Home Electronics
Genre:
Tagged With: scrolling, shoot-'em-up
Available For: Amiga 500, Amstrad CPC464, Atari ST, Commodore 64/128, Game Boy, PC Engine (EU Version)/TurboGrafix-16 (US Version), PC-88, Sega Master System & Spectrum 48K/128K/+2/+3
First Released: 13th Mar 1989
Language(s): English
Items: R-Type (Electric Dreams, 3.5" Disc), Light Force (Ocean, 3.5" Disc)
First Released: 1st Feb 1989
Language(s): English
Items: R-Type (Electric Dreams, 3" Disc), R-Type (The Hit Squad, Cassette), R-Type (MCM, 3" Disc), R-Type (MCM, Cassette), R-Type (Electric Dreams, Cassette), R Type 1 (Electric Dreams, Cassette), The Biz (Ocean, Cassette)
First Released: 1st Nov 1988
Language(s): English
Items: R-Type (Electric Dreams, 3.5" Disc), Light Force (Ocean, 3.5" Disc)
First Released: 1st Mar 1989
Language(s): English
Items: R-Type (The Hit Squad, Cassette), R-Type (Electric Dreams, Cassette), Dark Force (Ocean, Cassette)
First Released: 28th Oct 1984
Language(s): English
First Released: 13th Oct 1988
Language(s): Japanese
First Released: 24th Aug 1984
Language(s): English
Items: R-Type (Sega, ROM Cart), R-Type (Sega/Tec Toy, ROM Cart), R-Type (Sega, ROM Cart)
First Released: 23rd Jun 1984
Author(s): Bob Pape, Mark A. Jones & Robert L. Hylands
Language(s): English
Items: R-Type (Electric Dreams, Cassette), R-Type (The Hit Squad, Cassette), R-Type (MCM, Cassette), R-Type (MCM, Cassette), The Biz (Ocean, Cassette), The Biz (Ocean, 3" Disc)
