R-Type
R-Type is Hudson Soft's port of R-Type for TurboGrafx-16. Unlike the Japanese two part release for PC Engine (R-Type I and R-Type II) it was released as one complete game.
1 November 1989
R-Type is an arcade developed by Irem, released 1 November 1989 on Wii U, Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.
What R-Type is
R-Type is an arcade game developed by Irem and released in 1989. It was published by Hudson Soft. It is available on Wii U, Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
R-Type is Hudson Soft's port of R-Type for TurboGrafx-16. Unlike the Japanese two part release for PC Engine (R-Type I and R-Type II) it was released as one complete game.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the R-Type series
R-Type is the fifth of 23 entries we hold in the R-Type series. It arrived 10 months after R-Type. The next entry was R-Type II in 1989.
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When did R-Type come out?
R-Type was released on 1 November 1989 for Wii U, Wii and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.
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