Game Classification

R-Type Irem (Japan), Irem (Japan) / Nintendo (North America) (Japan), 1987  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Action - Futuristic - Shooter - Side scrolling shoot-em-up

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old / 25 to 35 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SHOOT : explanation of this brick
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R-Type R-Type is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named "Arrowhead" to defend humanity against a mysterious but powerful alien lifeform known as "Bydo", which was later discovered to be not entirely alien in origin. R-Type is recognized as one of the classics of the shooter genre from the 1980s arcade. [source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Amiga - Amstrad CPC - Arcade - Atari ST - Commodore 64 - Gameboy (GB) - MSX - Playstation (PSX) - Sega Master System - Wii - Xbox - PC (Dos) - Mobile (Java ME) - PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 - ZX Spectrum

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