R-Type Part I

Genre
Shoot 'em up

Developer
Irem

Publisher
Irem

Released


25 March 1988


R-Type
1989

Wii Virtual Console Availability
Delisted in March 2012
PS3 Playstion Network Availability
Find a Copy of the Original
24 March 2009

Split into part I and part II in Japan, gamers in the United States actually got the whole R-Type on one HuCard—one of the few times that a game's slow travel from East to West actually gave us a one-up over the Japanese. Here's an excellent review by Chris Bucci.