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  • Also, I'd like to think I'm the first person to be inspired by Michel Gondry AND R-Type on the same project.

    MY DESK IS 8-BIT on Vimeo 2010

  • It's R-Type that's responsible for introducing or popularising nearly everything that we expect today from shoot-em-ups.

    Great Moments In Gaming History #2: R-Type Greg Tannahill 2008

  • R-Type swaggered into arcades in 1987 and immediately began to savagely molest the previous genre kings, Gradius (1985) and Darius (1986).

    Great Moments In Gaming History #2: R-Type Greg Tannahill 2008

  • Customisable weapons, a semi-controllable option pod known as the "Force", and a chargeable beam shot are all core elements of the R-Type experience.

    Great Moments In Gaming History #2: R-Type Greg Tannahill 2008

  • I love Gradius in the way that a Catholic priest loves his altar boy, but there is no question that R-Type is the better game.

    Great Moments In Gaming History #2: R-Type Greg Tannahill 2008

  • Key entries in the genre include classics such as 1942, Gradius and R-Type.

    Blazing Lazers Greg Tannahill 2008

  • R-Type is one of the most nun-punchingly hard games ever released for any system, ever.

    Great Moments In Gaming History #2: R-Type Greg Tannahill 2008

  • Eventually most home consoles saw ports of R-Type; the TurboGrafx-16 version is available today through the Wii Virtual Console.

    Great Moments In Gaming History #2: R-Type Greg Tannahill 2008

  • Yoyo's Puzzle Park is a strange little game, it's by irem I was just playing R-Type Final too.. and is unusually named after the bad guy!

    recent videogame purchases tenshi_a 2007

  • Yoyo's Puzzle Park is a strange little game, it's by irem I was just playing R-Type Final too.. and is unusually named after the bad guy!

    Archive 2007-08-01 tenshi_a 2007

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