GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Developer Granzella is taking a very bizarre step with its shoot-'em-up revival game R-Type Final 2. Via a free update later this year, the game is ...

Type. Its imagery is burned into the collective memory: the Force ping-ponging about the screen, the Wave Cannon charging in silence, levels that feel less like stages and more like hostile ecosystems ...

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 ...

The R-Type series has been around for quite a number of years now, and sadly, it's coming to an end. Irem have released what will be the last ever R-Type game, aptly titled R-Type Final. So does it ...

In the great pantheon of shoot-'em-up games, R-Type is both one of the greatest and one of the most excruciatingly difficult. Released in arcades in 1987 and drawing visual inspiration from the works ...

The sequel to R-Type arrived in December 1989, two-and-a-half years after the original game. This gap between games seems perfectly reasonable these days, but back then there was genuine surprise that ...

Granzella announced remakes of turn-based strategy RPGs R-Type Tactics and R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate during the latest Granzella Gathering live stream. The remakes will be ...

“What if every stage had its own dedicated background music, just like in the arcade?”—That “what if” has finally become reality. Fight your way through from the First Bydo Mission to the Second Bydo ...

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 ...

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 ...