— CAN YOU GUESS IT? —

GUESS R-TYPE FROM SCREENSHOTS

R-Type cover

Irem's R-Type defined the methodical side of the shoot-em-up in 1987 with the Force, a detachable pod that blocks bullets and bolts onto your ship's front or rear. Its biomechanical alien empire, chargeable wave cannon and demanding, memorization-heavy stage design influenced horizontal shooters for decades.

📅 Year:
1987
🎮 Platforms:
arcade, commodore-64, iphone, nintendo-3ds, sega-master-system
🏷️ Genres:
2D scrolling, Action, Arcade, Sci-fi, Shooter, Side view, Space flight
💀 Difficulty:
Hard
🕹️ On Game Guessr:
1 × screenshot
3.8/5 · 25 ratings

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▸ IN-GAME SCENES

R-Type in-game scene 1

R-TYPE ON GAME GUESSR

In the quiz rotation, R-Type is represented by 1 in-game screenshot. We rate it Hard difficulty: that reflects how quickly players typically name it from a scene alone.

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