Talk:R-Type
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Link to German Version
[edit]I could not link to the German and vice versa. Why? 95.222.238.33 (talk) 21:14, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
Humor
[edit]Care to explain how exactly those April's fools "jokes" were executed? How does a videogame company sell burgers for example? 83.76.255.152 (talk) 12:07, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Naming
[edit]Why "R·Type" instead of "R-Type", SeizureDog? I believe the dot is a characteristic of the R-Type font and not the title of the game. Irem's webpage, the japanese R-Type pages, Irem's promotional flyers and the box cover for "R-Type Tactics" also use the hyphen. Does anyone agree that it should be changed back?
- I definitely agree. It goes against WP:MOSTM to name article based solely on box art. As you said all official and reliable sources name the game with a dash instead of a dot. I moved the page and I plan to move all other game pages since there is nothing controversial here. --Mika1h (talk) 22:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
26th Century, 22nd Century?
[edit]I'm not questioning the sources or anything, but is there an explanation given for the time travelling beyond "another dimension"?Dr. Lobotomy 03:38, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Whispering 20:42, 11 November 2005 (UTC) disambiguation link repair (You can help!)
- I agree, the storyline doesn't seem to go much into that in this article; so 'mankind created a weapon', it went into 'another dimension via a wormhole', and came back 4 centuries earlier to face mankind. Though I know this is OR, it would seem mankind dubbed this enemy "the Bydo empire" without knowledge that it was a weapon created by mankind in the future. Is there any official canon to substantiate that? Well, it seems odd they'd name something an 'empire' if they knew it was infact a weapon created by themselves. 71.222.88.249 21:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
- That storyline is from an Irem source, not OR. Mstuomel 21:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
The videogame developer Factor 5 has on their website three amiga games to download, one of which being R-type. If the company did not have the legal right to put it up for download it would not be on the site. Atirage 04:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
My question is of similar grounds... so I will put it here. the 'List of commercial games released as freeware' page has R-Type (1, presumably) listed... yet there is no mention of it in this article... I think one of the two articles should be modified to reflect what the situation is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.173.174.184 (talk) 00:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Critical Response
[edit]I forget the magazine who gave the award (might have been C&VG) but Karl Jeffrey's conversion to the Atari ST was rated the best arcade conversion of the year, 1989 I think and was widely critiqued as one of the best conversions ever made. I can't fully remember the exact details of the award but Karl had a nice shiny plaque up on his office wall in Fareham when I worked for Images Software in 1990. I also remember Games Machine magazine asking me about it when they interviewed me that year. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 149.8.248.2 (talk) 13:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC).
Addition to platforms list
[edit]Actually, R-Type went out also on NEC PC-88VA computer. That's pretty rare japanese computer, but it's worth noting. You can use image search in google to find some posters or cover art for a proof, or simply watch some video with gameplay on youtube. Moroz1999 (talk) 18:07, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Bob Pape
[edit]Bob Pape's book [1] is an interesting source of information on the Spectrum/ST/C64 conversions. 2fort5r (talk) 20:01, 20 March 2014 (UTC)