Like a Pokemon that hit itself in confusion, my mind was a bit of a mess as I started playing R-Type Final 3 Evolved. See, the game’s opening sequence starts out exactly just like R-Type Final 2. I ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nearly two months after the Wii's launch, there are only a handful of gaming series with multiple installments available on the Virtual Console. Two ...

You'd think that since R-Type III was originally a Super NES game that a developer would have no trouble converting it to the Game Boy Advance. After all, companies like Nintendo and Capcom sure haven ...

Ah, yes the 1980s. The decade that brought us oversized blazers, poofy Aqua Net hair and a certain side-scrolling shoot-em-up known as R-Type. Chronicling the struggle between humanity and the ...

Granzella has announced that they are making R-Type Final 2, with a crowdfunding campaign to occur in the future. For this, they have opened an official site for the game, and have also released a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook For the first time in several years, R-Type will be making its way back to a Nintendo platform.

R-Type wasn’t supposed to come back. When the studio behind it, Irem, released R-Type Final in the early 2000s, it meant the name literally. Final was supposed to be the last proper game in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Back in the July of 1987, a new and unique shoot-em-up was ...

Former Irem director and current Granzella head Kazuma Kujo recently talked about an R-Type Final 2 that was discussed but never made, owing to a screenshot that surfaced on Twitter recently. The ...

In what is already the weirdest thing we've seen in 2025 (two days in), someone decided to make a parody version of R-Type featuring the cartoon strip Garfield. Simply called Gar-Type, this is a ...