

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

Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- R-Type DXR-Type DX: Music Encore
- Part of
- R-Type
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