How did you find out about R-Type II - arcade or magazine?

[parallaxscroll2]

How did you discover there was a sequel to R-Type, did you see it running in arcade, convenience store, etc., or did you read about it a magazine, like I did?

For that matter, I'd ask the same thing about Gradius III.

This is a question for the oldies.

Electronic Gaming Monthly #6 and #10

[NTSC-J]

I don't think any of us can forget where we were when we heard they made a sequel to R-Type.

I was just six at the time when my parents woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me the bad news.

[vvv_stg]

I don't think any of us can forget where we were when we heard they made a sequel to R-Type.

I was just six at the time when my parents woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me the bad news.

I certainly cannot forget, because I did not even exist back then.

[ryu]

I don't think any of us can forget where we were when we heard they made a sequel to R-Type.

I was just six at the time when my parents woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me the bad news.

This is my post of the year.

I didn't even know there was a sequel or that it was an arcade game before I joined the internet shmups community a few years back. The only shmup I played before I got Gradius ReBirth around the time it was released was Nemesis on the Gameboy. I was interested in R-Type on the SNES as a kid (saw it once in a store, the boxart reminded me enough of Nemesis to be interested), but never actually got to play or own the game until much later.

[Mero]

This is a question for the oldies.

I would have seen both of them in the arcades.

[MintyTheCat]

I think I saw them both around about the same time. R-Type got many ports so it was all over the place at one time.

[davyK]

I can remember playing an RType game on an arcade cabinet in a pub circa 1990. I think it was R-Type II but I was drinking scrumpy cider at the time so my memory is somewhat fuzzy. The scrumpy's strength was such that they were only selling it in half pints.

[rjosal]

Gradius III was a launch title for SNES so that Christmas we had that, then not too long later we got Super R-Type.

[Strikers1945guy]

I don't think any of us can forget where we were when we heard they made a sequel to R-Type.

I was just six at the time when my parents woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me the bad news.

To be fair I prefer R Type II over the original but yeah.

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

Heres how:

http://amr.abime.net/amr_popup_picture. ... ize=186377
http://amr.abime.net/amr_popup_picture. ... ize=206314

A year later I got to play the cab at Just Micro, a software store below Gremlin Graphic's office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_78uJPtwsA Oh look, someone made a video about the old location. I live in Canada now so it's really cool to look at this old neighborhood from my childhood.

[MathU]

I got Super R-Type and R-Type III and wondered what happened to the II.

[Pedro Lambrini]

I was never hugely into R-Type but my pal was a big fan. We played it to death on his Speccy - Him for the love of it, me for the friendship.

Being aware of the game, the sequel caught my eye in the arcade. I thought to myself "oh look, I better tell ma pal..." and went back to thumping baddies in Golden Axe. That was the extent of it really. I later played it on the Amiga when it came out and had some fun with it then.

As an aside, you might be interested in seeing this:

http://www.denofgeek.com/games/r-type/3 ... nime-short

Looks like a bit of fun.

[null1024]

Honestly, I didn't know there were any sequels to R-Type other than Delta for ages. Only after I discovered MAME did I find out there was an R-Type 2.

[o.pwuaioc]

I knew of Super R-Type, but not directly of Super R-Type II until I learned of the existence of R-Types (PS1).

[Casey120]

Either C&VG or EGM .

[Lord Satori]

I'm a scrub who found out via Command.

Which is a good game, but it feels a little off becoming acquainted to a series via its out-of-genre cousin.

[NAVVARR]

The Big Apple Amusement Arcade, Sauchiehall Street Glasgow.


Ah, happy memories- it just appeared there one day. I even managed to 1cc it.

Couldn't do it now, it was way tougher than RType 1.

[emphatic]

MAME.

[parallaxscroll2]

This is pretty interesting.

Here's R-Type II on the Super Famicom, before it became Super R-Type. This is still the first level, and it still has those 3 elevator things from the arcade game. They were quite different in Super R-Type.

http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/SFC_ ... tml#rtype2

[Ex_Mosquito]

I heard about it like most of my gaming news, from the mighty C&VG magazine. Your one-stop magazine for all things Japanese and obscure.

* hah I love that chrismcovell.com, proper late 90's web design, brilliant!

[parallaxscroll2]

Electronic Gaming Monthly #22, May 1991 - The stunning revelation Super R-Type is more than just R-Type II




EGM #23 - I clearly remember this issue because the first boss was shown on the cover.

[BIL]

Electronic Gaming Monthly #22, May 1991 - The stunning revelation Super R-Type is more than just R-Type II

Lovely scans. I don't seek 'em out, finding the nostalgia a bit overpowering and the writing uniformly featherweight... but the wide-eyed proclamations and hawt screenshots of EGM's early 90s import coverage will always warm my heart.

[parallaxscroll2]

Electronic Gaming Monthly #22, May 1991 - The stunning revelation Super R-Type is more than just R-Type II

Lovely scans. I don't seek 'em out, finding the nostalgia a bit overpowering and the writing uniformly featherweight... but the wide-eyed proclamations and hawt screenshots of EGM's early 90s import coverage will always warm my heart.

Haha, yeah same here.

[Bydobasher]

Wow, this was a long time ago now.... I think I saw it in a magazine first (was it EGM??), and only afterwards in the arcade. There weren't very many in town -- maybe only a couple, compared to several original R-Type machines. Must not have made too much money either, because it wasn't kept around long. I was terrible at it; could only get to stage 2 or 3, and never became any good until I got PSX R-Types a decade later.

Definitely saw R-Type Leo in a magazine too -- and never got to play that one until MAME.

[parallaxscroll2]

Same here, regarding R-Type Leo, saw it in a magazine, only played it in MAME.

What I remember seeing in a magazine was this



Same thing with Last Resort:



The influence R-Type II had on that game seems pretty clear.



Though Last Resort was more colorful.

And Pulstar was its own beast with pre-rendered sprites.

[Sumez]

I never heard of any R-Type sequels until I sad Delta in the stores. Of course, I hated shoot'em ups back in the 80s and early 90s, so I didn't really care either. I think even today most "casual" video game fans aren't aware there were ever ANY sequels to R-Type.

It's like when you hear people say "why don't they make Lemmings games anymore?". Promotion and mainstream outreach is everything.

[BIL]

Always loved that soft-focus effect of oldschool magazine screenshots on 2D graphics. Nothing you'd want in gameplay, ofc, but it makes stills look mythic.

Compelled to say this after going "hory shiet what's that badass mech game?!" only to realise it was my longtime favourite Wolf Fang aka Rohga Armor Force. They shoulda tried for a screenshot of ERECTRIGGA to really show off the RADICAL WEAPONS. :3

[Sumez]

Irem graphics REALLY lend themselves to that effect. It also did a really good job on the 16-bit Capcom titles like SGnG, Demon's Crest and Mega Man X. I was drooling over those games when I read about them in the magazines.

[parallaxscroll2]

Always loved that soft-focus effect of oldschool magazine screenshots on 2D graphics. Nothing you'd want in gameplay, ofc, but it makes stills look mythic.

Yes, thank you for putting that to words.

Compelled to say this after going "hory shiet what's that badass mech game?!" only to realise it was my longtime favourite Wolf Fang aka Rohga Armor Force. They shoulda tried for a screenshot of ERECTRIGGA to really show off the RADICAL WEAPONS. :3

Here's the full page with Wolf Fang and Last Resort: http://i.imgur.com/XzyNpTt.jpg

Irem graphics REALLY lend themselves to that effect. It also did a really good job on the 16-bit Capcom titles like SGnG, Demon's Crest and Mega Man X. I was drooling over those games when I read about them in the magazines.

Totally agree.

[KyoKusagani1999]

Very interesting find ! I was not born back then, however, this article allows outsiders like us to get an insight as to what all the hubbub was about back in the day ! I'm sure if I was young during the midst of IREM and Konami's genre domination, the news would have been really exciting to me. Thanks for scanning those pages !