R-Type is recognized as one of the classics of the shooter genre from the 1980s arcade.

The gameplay of R-Type is noticeably distinct among shoot ' em ups.

* The pre-mission text for Stage 5. 0 of R-Type Final is a perfect summation of the background plot of the game:

The Force is R-Type < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s most notable and unique innovation.

Players of R-Type sometimes qualify the weapon's name with words such as ' Pod ', or ' Unit ', or even ' Droid ', but officially it is simply a Force.

For example, in R-Type II, if the cannon is not fired when the ' BEAM ' bar has been charged completely, the gauge is able to enter a second stage of charging, and if the cannon is fired during this time, it launches a wide spread shot of medium power energy shots instead of a single large shot.

The PC Engine version of R-Type is notable for having a boss at the end of Stage 6, rather than a prolonged wave of enemies as in all other versions.

The whole third level is made of a ship similar to R-Type.

It is a port of the original R-Type and the sequel R-Type II.

These cannons fire whatever weapon is equipped on the main ship at the time, like in R-Type Leo.

* R-Type: The ' S ' icon, which increases the player's speed every time one is collected.

The company is probably best known for Moon Patrol, the famous scrolling shooter R-Type and the earliest beat ' em up, Kung-Fu Master.

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.

It is most problematic in Nemesis (" R-Type style " horizontal space shooter ).

It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise.

R-Type Final identifies this ship as the OF-1 Daedalus, but it is not known if that was the ship's original name.

Unlike the Force in R-Type, they cannot be ejected from the ship-the only way to remove them, in fact, is to have them destroyed.

The ship from this game is included in R-Type Final, where it is the first in a series of five fighters called the OF series.

* Mike and Ran, a pair of cats with what looks like bandages between their legs, a comical way of suggesting they've been neutered. Mike's weapon set is heavily based on first Darius, while Ran takes her weapons from the R-Type Leo.

* From the instruction booklet for R-Type Final:

A fairly accurate port of R-Type was released for the PC Engine and TurboGrafx 16 consoles, although both versions suffered from a slightly lower resolution, reduced colour palette, sprite flickering and slow down-due to the slightly reduced resolution, the playfield also scrolls slightly in the vertical axis whenever the player's ship approaches the top or bottom of the screen.

The Japanese release for the PC Engine was split across two game cards ( HuCards ) titled R-Type I and R-Type II and the later North American release for the TurboGrafx 16 contained the entire game on a single card.

The Turbografx 16 version of R-Type was one of the first games confirmed for Nintendo's Virtual Console.

In 2010, DotEmu developed an iOS port of R-Type, published by Electronic Arts, released also for Android in September 2011.

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

Dobkeratops, the R-Type level 1 boss can be seen in Irem's Undercover Cops, on a television screen, which can be picked up for points.

As well, some of the other " burgers " were filled with game discs, the one for R-Type Final proudly on display right below the top bun.

* R-Type for Amstrad CPC at CPCWiki

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.

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.

Super R-Type, released in 1991 for the Super Famicom, is a semi-port of R-Type II.

** In the United Kingdom and Ireland Alexander's R-Type body attracted substantial orders for the Olympian with operators like Dublin Bus, various companies of the Scottish Bus Group ( SBG ), Lothian Regional Transport ( LRT ), and Strathclyde Transport / Strathclyde's Buses.

These operators developed loyal ties with East Lancs who met their requirements with a variety of body styles for the Olympian-including the E-Type which was essentially a clone of Alexander's R-Type body.

The first Thalamus game to be awarded a Gold Medal by Zzap! 64, Armalyte was an impressive shoot-em up in the spirit of R-Type, originally conceived as its own unique identity but publicised as a sequel to Delta.

The game is the sequel to R-Type, which was first released as an arcade game in 1987 and profoundly influenced later shooting games with its charge shots, unique weaponry, and grotesque enemies.

The R-Type series, until recently, never really explained much about the ubiquitous enemy of the series: the Bydo Empire.

Until November of 2011, various Irem games including the R-Type series were available on the Wii's Virtual Console service.

Their weapon sets parody those used in the R-Type series, but the weapons are also implemented with functions from Xexex ( such as search laser ).

True to the game series ' theme, many of the weapon sets are actually either direct weapons or borrowed parodies of the weapons used in other Konami's shoot-em ups-even expanding to poke fun at the other game industries ' famous shooters, such as Taito's Darius and Irem's R-Type.

Pickford designed the " Worm " boss similar to the bosses found in R-Type, where a series of smaller sprites formed a snake or worm-like enemy ; however, he commented that " it ended up in the game more like a giant floating head ".

He was the developer of the popular Turrican video game series, the Commodore 64 version of the game R-Type and also The Great Giana Sisters.

It is the second game in the R-Type series.