Carl Williams writes, "Over the course of gaming, we have seen a ton of scrolling shooters come and go. The genre that started with the likes of Defender and Space Invaders evolved all the way up to visually impressive titles such as Ikaruga and the various bullet hell games. One series that has held its own over the years, even against much more visually striking competition, is the R-Type series. The only other series that can probably hold a candle to R-Type would be the Darius games by Taito. R-Types was a late release for the original Playstation console, hitting in 1999. This didn’t matter because the contents of that CD-ROM are timeless."
BY YANNIS VATIS: The gaming landscape today is filled with a lot of options for today’s young generation of players. Sure, they’ve got Minecraft to keep them occupied for hours but if it’s all the essential twitch controls and spatial and situational awareness skills that you want to pass down to your little digital warriors without exposing them to more mature content, then to the retro library we must dive!
This list contains the top 5 retro games that will not only forge your children into skillful gamers but also create lots of memorable bonding moments.
The release date has been revealed for the R-Type: Dobkeratops Figma Action Figure.
Join Hardlydan and Amras89 for game talk and fun! This time, The Gamesmen talk about mini games and Amras gets asked things again . Games discussed are Super Smash Bros Ultimate, PUBG , R-Type, Diablo III, Civilization VI, Blade and Sorcery, Katamari Demacy REROLL, Red Dead Redemption 2, Sea of Thieves, and Monster Hunter World.
Never forgotten, used to play ever day in my local arcade me and my pal cat were local celebs of the arcade as we were hardcore rtypers and had every score on the highscore table.
Then the jamma console broke and the new arcade box only had a 4 way joystick and so ended our fun in the arcade. Managed to pick it up on my PC engine which was arcade perfect. Never picked up the playstation version coz I had a full arcade unit by then, but love the game even now
Great game r-type two especially. Wish the series would have kept developing. Can only imagine what an r-type today would be like.
To bad Ascii and Eidos stop producing R-type after R-type final.
would love to see up-to-date graphics for ps4
along with up-to-date graphic Gradius,Einhader,Raycrisis even Contra.