is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987.

" One particularly talkative cultist, known as " old Castro ", named the centre of the cult as Irem, the City of Pillars, in Arabia, and referenced a relevant passage in the text the Necronomicon: " That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die ".

That same year, Kaneko produced Roller Aces, an early roller skating racer played from a third-person perspective, while Irem released MotoRace USA, an early partially third-person motorbike racer, where the player travels across the US and refuels at various cities along the way, while avoiding crashes that can cause a substantial loss of fuel, causing the game to end if the fuel is depleted.

Overall, the video game development department is the only remnant of the former Irem Corporation which is still associated with the brand.

Irem Software Engineering is headquartered in Hakusan.

The space is called the " Irem Square ".

There is also a store in the space that users can purchase items from Irem.

On August 13, 2009, Irem added another space called the " Seaside of Memories ", which is a beach resort with three accessible huts.

On December 3, 2009, Irem released another space to Japan for their game R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate called the Sparkling Flash Space, which is based in space and features displays of three R-Type Shooters and a mini-game.

Irem Square is also available in the North American PlayStation Home.

The lost city of Ubar, sometimes identified with Irem in what is now the town of Shisr in Oman, is believed to have been a center of the frankincense trade along the recently rediscovered " Incense Road ".

is a classic arcade game by Irem that was first released in 1982.

Kung-Fu Master, known in Japan as, is a beat ' em up arcade game developed and published in Japan by Irem.

In 1988, another arcade game by Irem titled as Vigilante was created and released, which is a spin-off of Kung-Fu Master, due to the gameplay being nearly the same, but with a completely different plot added to it that takes place in the urban areas of New York City, where a nameless titular character must save his girlfriend, Madonna (" Maria " in the Sega Master System version ) who was captured by the Skinheads (" Rogues " in the Sega Master System version ).

* The forthcoming New World of Darkness limited game line, Mummy: the Curse, published by White Wolf Game Studios-Onyx Path, Irem is the Stone Age city where the game's protagonists, the Arisen, were created.

is a 1988 vertically-scrolling shoot ' em up arcade game developed and published by Irem.

Dragon Breed is a horizontally-scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1989.

Another identified source is the 9th Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, whose description of " Irem, the City of Pillars " he copied into his commonplace book: " which yet, after the annihilation of its tenants, remains entire, so Arabs say, invisible to ordinary eyes, but occasionally, and at rare intervals, revealed to some heaven-favoured traveller.

is a side-scrolling shooter game published in 1986 by Irem for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

R-Type II is a horizontal scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Irem in 1989.

Disaster Report, known in Europe as SOS: The Final Escape, and known in Japan as, is a survival action-adventure video game created by Irem.

It was also used in the Psion Series 3, in the NEC PC-9801 ( originally released in 1982 ), the Olivetti PCS86, the Applied Engineering " PC Transporter " emulator for the Apple II series of computers, and in various arcade machines ( particularly ones made by Irem ) in the late 1980s.

The game was produced for Irem by Takashi Nishiyama, who also created Irem's arcade-hit Moon Patrol, and later designed the original Street Fighter at Capcom before leaving to run SNK's videogame development division, creating the Neo Geo arcade system board and its games like Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, Art of Fighting, The King of Fighters ' 94, and Samurai Shodown there, as well as several of their successors.

Iram of the Pillars ( Arabic: إر َ م ذات العماد, ), also called Aram, Iram, Irum, Irem, ErY

A sequel was also released in arcades and for the NES on September 18, 1987 called Spelunker II: Yūsha e no Chōsen by Irem, in Japan only.

Then a group of employees, tired of the company's inactivity, left Irem to form their own company under the name Nazca Corporation, which became best known for developing SNK's Metal Slug franchise.

Irem has used R-Type and its Bydo villains for more than a few of their trademark elaborate April Fool's Day pranks.

According to producer Hiroshi Iuchi, the main inspiration for the game's design was Image Fight, an arcade game by Irem from 1988.

R-Type, an acclaimed side-scrolling shoot ' em up, was released in 1987 by Irem, employing slower paced scrolling than usual, with difficult levels calling for methodical strategies.

Irem was founded in 1974 under the name IPM, an abbreviation for International Playing Machine.

Irem now develops and publishes games in Japan exclusively for the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Portable.

On April 1, 2009, Irem gave away free " Combatant of the Black Irem Brigade " suits in the space that were only available for that day.

During the holiday season in Home, Irem redecorated their spaces for the occasion.

Irem redecorated the spaces, except the Sparkling Flash Space, for Christmas from December 17, 2009 until January 7, 2010.

The original arcade version was later included along with the arcade versions of 10-Yard Fight and Zippy Race in IAC / Irem Arcade Classics for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn, released in Japan only in 1996 by Irem and I ' Max.

Factor 5 started out developing games under partnership with Rainbow Arts for the Amiga computer, where they had their earliest moderate success with Katakis, a R-Type clone of impressive technical performance that even granted them the official conversion rights of the Irem game to those platforms, acquired by Rainbow Arts.

In 1998, Image Fight, along with another arcade game by Irem, X-Multiply, was released only in Japan as a one-disc double-bill for the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Saturn.

It was first released in Japan for the PlayStation 2 in 2002 by Irem, and later released in North America and Europe in 2003 by Agetec.

Irem set up " Irem Burger " as their 2004 prank.

As Irem entered the 1990s, their logo included a dragonfly because in Japan, dragonflies symbolize " martial success ," due to similarity in the sound of the word " dragonfly " and " victory " in Japanese.

Eizo and its subsidiary, Irem, have their headquarters in Hakusan.