Ludography
R-Type cover

1989 · Port · Irem · Shooter · Arcade

R-Type

Timed NEC exclusivePort

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.

Released
1 November 1989
Platforms
WiiTurboGrafx-16Wii U
Genres
ShooterArcade
Developers
Irem
Publishers
Hudson SoftKonamiNEC
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
ActionScience fiction
Age ratings
ESRB E
Languages
English

Keywords

  • shoot 'em up
  • side-scrolling
  • virtual console
  • wii virtual console
  • wii u virtual console

Media

R-Type screenshot 1

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
TurboGrafx-161 November 1989North America
Wii25 December 2006North America · Europe 29 December 2006 · Australia 6 July 2007
Wii U30 April 2014Japan · North America 14 July 2016

Editions and related releases

Included in
TurboGrafx-16 MiniPC Engine Mini
Expanded editions
R-Type Complete CD
Part of
R-Type
Built on it
R-Type Complete CD

Games like this

Added from the IGDB catalog; not on any collection yet.