R-Type is set in the 22nd century, and the player flies a futuristic fighter craft called the R-9a " Arrowhead ", named for its shape, and because it is the ninth model in the ' R ' series of fighter craft ( but it is the first of the series to actually be used in combat ; the previous models were all prototypes ).

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

As if that weren't enough, they also had a triple-wide " Bydo Monitor " as a peripheral, that of course R-Type Final 2 would support.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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Bishop Wigers ( 1138 – 60 ) was the first of a series of bishops of the Premonstratensian Order, which chose the occupants of the see until 1447 ; in that year a bull of Nicholas V gave the right of nomination to the elector of Brandenburg, with whom the bishops stood in a close feudal relation.

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The Masorti movement did not establish a presence in the United Kingdom until much later and came about largely because of a series of incidents known colletively as the " Jacobs affair ": Rabbi Louis Jacobs, a leading scholar of Anglo Jewry, joined the faculty of the Jews College, leaving his post as Rabbi of the New West End Synagogue, under the impression that he would eventually be made principal.

The ideas of classical liberalism remained essentially unchallenged until a series of depressions, thought to be impossible according to the tenets of classical economics, led to economic hardship from which the voters demanded relief.

A coin toss is held to determine which team will take possession first ; the first team scrimmages the ball at the opponent's 35-yard line and advances through a series of downs until it scores or loses possession.

In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.

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