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R-Type

Description

Scrolling shoot-em-up game. Use your force to help kill the aliens. Pick up power-ups that appear when you kill "Armos". Power-ups help you get stronger. They include air-to-ground, reflective, air-to-air, heat-seeking lasers, and speed-ups.

R-Type was produced by Irem in 1987.

Irem released 90 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Irem was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Irem during the time period R-Type was produced include: Battle Bird, Lode Runner - Teikoku Karano Dasshutsu, Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, Youjyuden, Kaiketsu Yanchamaru, Mr. Heli No Dai-Bouken, Battle Chopper, Image Fight, Meikyuu Shima, and Ninja Spirit

Specs

Name	R-Type
Developer	Irem (Japan)
Year	1987
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9219
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Space
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	R-Type Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - FirePod Control
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Instructions	R-Type Instructions Image
Control Panel	R-Type Control Panel Image
Side Art	R-Type Side Art Image
PCB	R-Type PCB Image

Video Clips

R-Type (Arcade) [Irem] Retro Danuart

Game Play

The longer you hold down the fire button, the stronger your shot will be. When at full strength your shot will kill every enemy that it touches. A normal shot will only kill one enemy.

R-Type KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.37 (8 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.82

Overall Like	3.86
Fun (Social)	3.14
Fun (Solo)	3.86
Collector Desire	4.00

Technical Rating: 3.26

Gameplay	3.86
Graphics	4.14
Originality	2.75
Sound/Music	3.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Miscellaneous

LICENSOR Nintendo

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op R-Type Census

There are 15,098 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,597 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 165,943 machines (6,963 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 184 known instances of this machine owned by R-Type collectors who are active members. Of these, 91 of them are original dedicated machines. 6 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 87 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a R-Type machines for sale. There are 3 active VAPS members with a R-Type circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 15 active VAPS members currently looking for R-Type. There are 5 active VAPS members looking for R-Type boards sets.

This game ranks a 46 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Technical

Strange, that while the PCB for RType says JAMMA on it, it is not a game that can be simply swapped with another JAMMA board. This game has no 5V pinout on the edge connector, nor does it have the test and tilt pinouts of a true JAMMA connector. Also, nowhere in the manual is the word JAMMA mentioned. However, it works just fine with JAMMA harnesses.

Legacy

Manuals

Manual - Irem - R-Type Manual — **Manual - Irem**
(4 pages, 625 kB File)

Operation Manual - R-Type Manual — **Operation Manual**
(56 pages, 3.3 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 201; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 201; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Dedicated (4f73be98dd9656ec71d096a6914e7333)

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