R-Type Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]

Follow me on Twitter @   / al82_retro   Get Great Retro Scene News @ http://www.vintageisthenewold.com 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! #retrogaming