Ludography
R-Type cover

1991 · Port · Irem · Shooter · Arcade

R-Type

Nintendo exclusivePort

Game Boy port of R-Type.

Released
19 March 1991
Platforms
Game Boy
Genres
ShooterArcade
Developers
Irem
Publishers
Irem
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
ActionScience fiction
Languages
English
›Story

Bydo and his band of menacing mutants are doing dastardly deeds. They are wrecking havoc in the Cosmos and threatening Earth. Only you, piloting the R-TYPE Spaceship, can counter this threat and save the Blue Planet from catastrophic calamity.

Keywords

  • shoot 'em up
  • side-scrolling
  • summer consumer electronics show 1990

Media

R-Type screenshot 1

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Game Boy19 March 1991Japan · North America 1 May 1991

Editions and related releases

Included in
R-Type DXR-Type DX: Music Encore
Part of
R-Type

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