R-Type Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]

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Developed and published by Rainbow Arts in 1988

So, here we have the properly licensed port of Irem's famous R-Type arcade game on the good ol' Commodore 64.

Developed by Manfred Trenz, Andreas Escher, Chris Hulsbeck and Ramiro Vaca, this game really deserves a higher score than the 72% that Zzap 64 magazine gave it (although they had big gripes with the tape multi-loader; I used the disk version so was spared any pain on that front).

If anyone watched my Katakis video, you'll see the resemblance. Although Katakis is a better game, R-Type is a lot more controllable due to the slower pace of the action, so I actually enjoyed it a lot more.

The only complaint is the fact you have to replay the entire level from scratch if you die. Not a big problem for tool-assisted emulators, but this would have been horrible back on a real C64.

Overall, this is a very good port and showed off what was to come from Manfred et al.

Enjoy!
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