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R-Type (1987)

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R-Type is one of the iconic arcade games of the 1980s. It is commonly cited as one of the best shoot 'em up video games, and one of the greatest video games of all time. Although I have to say it was tough as boots, hard as nails, solid as a rock, you only stood a chance of completing it if you had the eyesight of a hawk and the reflexes of a cat. I guess gamers were made of sterner stuff back in those days.

As was the tradition back then, successful games tended to find their way out of the arcades and into the homes of computer and console gamers the planet over. R-Type was no exception and was ported to a multitude of machines. Rather remarkably, each conversion was actually rather good. The PC Engine/TurboGrafx game is generally considered to be the best of the bunch, and one of the best games on the system itself, while a splendid version for the Sega Master System was also highly regarded.

But it's the ZX Spectrum port which is probably most deserving of praise. As well as being a bloody good version of the game, its existence is something of a technical marvel, pushing the Speccy harware to its limits and getting it to do things that even Mr Sinclair probably never thought possible.

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