Pulstar - Made by Ex-Irem Employees or Not?

dczx · Post by **dczx** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:22 am

I've been researching Pulstar on google and everywhere I see these rumours that it was made by ex-IREM employees. Other places say this is not true. Does anyone know for sure? This is bugging me.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:59 am

Yeah, I've heard from just about everyone that some Irem guys worked on the game.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:17 am

It certainly has a lot of similarities, but I don't think anyone can give a guaranteed statment about it - iirc the credit listings in both games only give nicknames and the like. Grr.

dczx · Post by **dczx** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:32 am

From Arcade-History.com:

R-Type Leo was developed by Irem's internal group 'Nanao' (authors of te famous "Meikyuu Jima"); the original authors of R-Type's series went to 'Aicom' (bought by SNK) to develope "Pulstar".

does that sound right?

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:12 am

dczx wrote:From Arcade-History.com:

R-Type Leo was developed by Irem's internal group 'Nanao' (authors of te famous "Meikyuu Jima"); the original authors of R-Type's series went to 'Aicom' (bought by SNK) to develope "Pulstar".

does that sound right?

Since it was me the one who wrote that info for Arcade History, let me say that the whole Irem-SNK thing expands to many other titles like Last Resort, Top Hunter of KOF94. R-Type people working on Pulstar was published by some Euro mag at the moment, anyways.

dczx · Post by **dczx** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:41 pm

Okay, so did the R-Type Leo team also work on the original R-Type and R-Type II that went to Pulstar?

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:32 am

dczx wrote:Okay, so did the R-Type Leo team also work on the original R-Type and R-Type II that went to Pulstar?

So nope.