R-Type (series)

R-Type is a emblematic series of Video game of the Shoot them up with run horizontal, developed by Irem and begun in 1987 on Borne from arcade.

List plays

Episodes

The series R-Type includes/understands five principal episodes like various compilations and remix. The comings out date correspond to the first world exit; except exceptions (*), it is about the Japanese exit.

R-Type '

See also: R-Type

The first episode left in July 1987 on Borne arcade to Japan and was related to many consoles and microcomputers. It brings important innovations which will be included thereafter in other plays of the same kind:

  • confrontation with a Boss at each end of level;
  • the additional module with optional weapons.

R-Type II

See also: R-Type II

The second episode left on Borne arcade in December 1989.

Super R-Type

Remix of R-Type and R-Type 2, Super R-Type left in July 1991 on Super Nintendo.

R-Type LEO

Left only on Terminal arcade in December 1992, this episode moves away from the other R-Type by not proposing a Force and from Wave Canon .

R-Type III: The Third Lightning

See also: R-Type III: The Third Lightning

This troisème canonical episode left in December 1993 on Super Nintendo.

R-Type Δ

See also: R-Type Δ

Fourth canonical episode of the series and the first with being conceived in 3D full.

PlayStation (November 1998)
PlayStation (October 2001) - Republication of Δ R-Type in the range Portable R' sBEST
PlayStation PSN (February 2007)
PlayStation 3 PSN (April 2007)

R-Type Final

See also: Final R-Type

The fifth and last canonical episode left in June 2003 on PlayStation 2.

R-Type Tactics

This episode is envisaged on PlayStation Portable in 2007 in Japan. As its title indicates it, it must implement a strategic dimension with the space combat.

Compilations

R-Types

A compilation of R-Type and R-Type II .
PlayStation (February 1998)
PlayStation (October 2001) - Republication of R-Types in the range Portable R' sBEST
PlayStation PSN (December 2006)
PlayStation 3 PSN (April 2007)

R-Type DX

A compilation of the versions Game Boy of R-Type 1 and 2 plus an episode remix of the two episodes, apparu in November 1999 on Game Boy Color.

Derivative products

With the Japan, the series knew various derivative products.

Four original soundtracks of play:

  • R-Type (January 1988)
  • R-Type II (January 1988)
  • Special R-type (September 1993)
  • R-Type Δ (February 1999)

A “simulation of the play in video” ( range video simulation ), left in April 1988 on VHS and Laserdisc.

Two books:

  • R-Type (December 1988)
  • R-Type Δ (December 1998)

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