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Description

source: wikidata1998 ASCII Entertainment Software, Inc. , Irem Software Engineering, Inc. , Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. Action , Compilation PlayStation , PlayStation 3 , PSP

source: wikipedia_enR-Types is a 1998 shoot'em up video game compilation developed and published by Irem for the PlayStation. It was published by ASCII Corporation in North America, and by Virgin Interactive in Europe. R-Types contains two games from Irem's R-Type franchise - the original R-Type (1987) and its direct sequel R-Type II (1989) - alongside bonus material such as promotional artwork and a gallery spanning the series' history. Kazumi Kujo, the chief producer for the series, suggested R-Types to Irem executives whilst in talks of a potential new R-Type game. Having fallen into heavy financial difficulties and being weary of the current console game market, Irem proposed that Kujo and staff create a collection of early R-Type games as a way to test the market if a sequel was suitable. Both games were reprogrammed from scratch via reverse-engineering the original hardware, as opposed to using software emulation. R-Types allowed Irem to familiarize themselves with the hardware of the PlayStation console. R-Types sold well, and gave Irem hope in a new R-Type game returning a profit. The game was praised by critics for its quality and extra content, although some argued that it could have benefi

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Metadata

First release1998-02-05
Categorymain_game
PlatformPlayStation

External IDs

wikidataQ88477088
mobygames5992
igdb22892

ROMs (2)

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NameRegionSerialSizeHashes
R-Types (Japan) jp 16 B crc32: 9cad49a3
md5: 2f2231349a215648…
sha1: f97355fd27c9a847…
sha256: 3f499211f873d800…
R-Types (USA) us 255495296 B crc32: 99316546
md5: 148810733713dda0…
sha1: fcb4de63231aa731…

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