Resources

Company page with full catalogue listing, platform coverage, and contributor-verified data.

Box art, screenshots, banners, and metadata for the R-Type series.

FAQs, walkthroughs, and strategy guides for R-Type across all platforms.

MAME ROMs, screenshots, manuals, and preserved arcade materials.

Official Arcade Archives re-releases including R-Type (M72 version) on Nintendo Switch and PS4.

Company history, founding timeline, corporate restructuring, key releases.

Development, Force device mechanics, Bydo lore, all home ports, critical reception.

Beat ‘em up origin, Jackie Chan connection, NES port, historical significance.

Parallax scrolling innovation, Williams Electronics distribution, reception.

Kazuma Kujo design credit, Nazca Corporation connection, Metal Slug origins.

Force type system, Tamtex development, Ikuko Mimori composition, reception.

Long-form series retrospective covering all R-Type entries with screenshots and analysis.

Community-maintained shmup database with R-Type scoring, strategy, and discussion.

High-resolution scans of original Irem arcade promotional flyers.

Active shoot ‘em up community with regular R-Type discussion, high score sharing, and newcomer guides.

Long-running shmup community with dedicated R-Type threads, scoring, and preservation discussion.

The network hosting this site - fan tributes to retro studios from the 1980s and 1990s.

Studio co-founded by Kazuma Kujo after Irem Software Engineering's 2011 game development exit. Working on Disaster Report 4 and successors.

The company formed by departing Irem employees in 1994 that created Metal Slug for SNK.

Technical documentation of the Irem M72 arcade board - chip list, specifications, and games.

Open-source arcade preservation emulator. Irem M52, M62, M72, M82, M84, and M92 all supported.

Technical driver documentation for the M72 board in MAME, including ROM sets and hardware notes.