The original R-Type was well received by most gaming critics.

In the history of the R-Type saga, Bits are the product of incomplete research that was intended to independently mimic the bioenergy technology of the Bydo, namely, the Force Device itself ; only with human life force.

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum version of R-Type was awarded 9 / 10 in the January 1989 issue of Your Sinclair

It was considered by many C-64 players to be technically better to that computer's R-Type port, due to the C-64 version of R-Type being a rushed production.

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.

The Xbox Live Arcade game R-Type Dimensions was released on February 4, 2009.

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.

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

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.

Image Fight was released one year after Irem's successful horizontal scroller, R-Type, and, although not directly related, the two games have some similarities.

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

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.

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.

A promotional movie of R-Type Delta was also included in this release.

Along with the original R-Type, the game was ported to the Xbox 360's downloadable service Xbox Live Arcade as " R-Type Dimensions ".

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.

This trend continues in later R-Type games-some Bits have the ability to use a miniature version of the Red weapon of some Forces.

* R-Type Final: A number of organic or part-organic Bydo-based fighters can be unlocked later in the game.

Hudson Soft ported the later 4 levels of the original R-Type to the TurboGrafx-16 with the title R-Type II, but the Hudson release is unrelated to the game described in this article.

In the PlayStation 3's communitarian-based social gaming network, PlayStation Home, Irem has released a Game Space in the Japanese Home to promote the release of R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate on the PSP and PSPgo.

Game quality improved over time, most notably with Vanguard ( 1981 ), a side-scrolling space shooter that many people consider the precursor to modern classics such as Gradius and R-Type.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

R-Type played a supporting role here, with three " Bydo Burgers ": The Living Body Burger, the Machine Burger, and the Harmony Burger.

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.

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 ).

* 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.

It has a rotational period of 4. 7012 hours, and is classified as an R-Type asteroid due to the presence of strong absorption lines in olivine and pyroxene with little or no metals.

** 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.

All three were the ship designation and Force names in R-Type Delta.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

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 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.

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

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.