Thank you for the honor to be featured among gaming history! I was a big fan of your let's compare and while coding the pico-8 version I was using your old video as reference and was secretly dreaming of being featured in one of these. Today the dream came true! I will continue working on the Mega drive version. For whoever might be curios, the pico-8 version is 128x128 16 colors and the whole game with 4 levels fits in 32 Kb of Lua code.
You missed five more things: The Java Mobile, ColecoVision (Team Pixelboy), Adobe Flash, PC-8801, and Atari Jaguar ports. Also, you need to have the MSX2 logo for the FM sound version. Other than that, nice job on making the video.
The Java is mentioned in the videos other information section. The Colecovision version is the MSX version, The Adobe Flash version is no longer available, There is no PC8801 version & the Jaguar version is the Atari ST version. It would have been redundant to include them.
DIdnt know there was an NES...or a hack of a nes game to make an R-type. Kind of wish there was an actual version though. Its kind of strange that game somehow came out on nearly every system except the NES/Famicom.
Where does the MS-DOS version come from? And why it says Nintendo in the title screen? I don't think there was an R-Type port for DOS. There also more homebrew games in the video other than the Pico and MegaDrive versions. The NES one is also homebrew.
The MS DOS version was an arcade conversion made for DOS but I believe it was the version that was licensed to Nintendo for Arcade Use. If you look at the arcade cabinet, it is a Nintendo Cab. Look at the arcade marquee & you'll see Nintendo on it. Very weird but that's how Irem did it then.
It doesn’t look like any DOS game I’ve ever seen, the graphics are nearly identical to the arcade version. A typical DOS game was 320x200 with 256 colors.
Maybe a much later port. Dont believe that any game released in 1987 could look that good on DOS (obviously using VGA mode and at least strong 386 CPU).
@@GamingHistorySource By the way, when making the Elevator Action remake video, if you don't have the Switch or the PS4, you can either ask for the Arcade Archives footage uploaded by certain TH-camrs or you can simulate the footage from scratch yourself like you did to the Evercade version shown here.
Interesting to note the snake boss on the Amiga version is half the size of other versions which seems weird wonder why it didn't match the ST one which is double the length. Also notice that the master system has mad amounts of sprite flicker even though it presumably had harwdware sprites and in contrast the ST that had no hardware sprites has no sprite flicker...most peculiar.
@@GamingHistorySource While you're doing this, can you ask someone on TH-cam for Evercade footage from the The Foreseen Arcade, and Arcade Archives PS4 footage from ThunderFirst1978?
Woof, that NES version is tragic. Shockingly bad. Even taking into account being an 8-bit machine. The sega master system version is gorgeous, while that NES port looks like a bad gameboy color port.
It appears to be home brew but that is no excuse since the Amstrad home brew is great but for some reason home brew games are not as mainstream as some other platforms
The NES version looks surprisingly good given its limited hardware capabilities. I’d imagine that porting a 16-bit arcade game to an 8-bit console is challenging.
Can you do Xevious remake next? I just have the list of ports all set up and ready to go. 1. Arcade 2. Arcade ( Namco Classic Collection Vol. 1 ) ( Xevious Arrangement ) 3. Sharp MZ-700 ( Tiny Xevious ) 4. Atari 2600 ( Unreleased ) 5. Apple 2 6. ZX Spectrum 7. Amstrad 8. Commodore 64 9. Atari 800 XE ( Unreleased ) 10. Atari 5200 ( Unreleased ) 11. NEC PC-6001mkII ( Tiny Xevious mkII ) 12. Sharp X1 13. Fujitsu FM-7 14. NEC PC-8801 15. Sharp MZ-2500 16. Panasonic JR-200U 17. MSX ( The Micro Xevious ) 18. Sega Master System ( The Micro Xevious ) 19. Java Mobile ( Live Capture Footage by EB1000 2nd Channel ) 20. Atari 7800 21. Atari ST 22. Gameboy Advance ( Classic NES Series ) 23. Evercade ( Namco Museum Collection 1 ) ( Live Capture Footage by The Foreseen Arcade ) 24. Nintendo Entertainment System 25. Famicom Disk System 26. Bandai Plug n Play ( Namco Nostalgia 1 ) ( Live Capture Footage by Mr. Do's Arcade ) 27. Jakks Pacific ( Retro Arcade Featuring Pac-Man ) ( Live Capture Footage by SuperViperT302 ) 28. MSX 2 ( Xevious: Fardraut Saga ) ( Recon Mode - Solvalou & Scramble Mode - Gampmission ) 29. Gameboy Color ( Xevious Millennium ) 30. PC Engine ( Xevious: Fardraut Densetsu ) ( Arcade Mode & Fardraut Mode ) 31. Windows ( Microsoft Revenge of Arcade ) 32. Sharp X68000 33. PlayStation ( Namco Museum Vol. 2 ) 34. PlayStation ( Xevious 3D/G+ ) ( Original & Xevious Arrangement ) 35. Nintendo DS ( Namco Museum DS ) 36. Playstation Portable ( Namco Museum Battle Collection ) 37. Xbox / Playstation 2 / Gamecube / Windows ( Namco Museum 50th Anniversary ) 38. Nintendo Wii ( Namco Museum Megamix ) 39. Playstation 3 ( Namco Museum Essentials ) 40. Xbox 360 ( Namco Museum Virtual Arcade ) 41. Nintendo 3DS ( Nintendo 3D Classics ) 42. Playstation 4 / Nintendo Switch ( Arcade Archives ) ( Live Capture Footage by ThunderFist1978 )
It really, really shouldn't as they are not the same game. The super nintendo game is a mix of r-type 1 and 2 and the third lightning is a totally different game overall. By that token he should include r-type 2, r-types and every other game that has r-type in the title...
Thank you for the honor to be featured among gaming history! I was a big fan of your let's compare and while coding the pico-8 version I was using your old video as reference and was secretly dreaming of being featured in one of these. Today the dream came true! I will continue working on the Mega drive version. For whoever might be curios, the pico-8 version is 128x128 16 colors and the whole game with 4 levels fits in 32 Kb of Lua code.
It is an amazing port & an amazing job ! It was my pleasure having it in the video. :)
Lil' fact: The NES R-Type is actually a hack of a bootleg port titled Magic Dragon, which had weirdly redone but familiar enough graphics and music.
Oh, that ZX Spectrum version is a masterpiece... so many sleepless nights :D
But what do you say, spectrum always makes a fool of itself in the comparison of versions hahahahaha
What a great video for R-Type's 36th Anniversary! Good job with the video!
Thank you ! Glad you enjoyed it. :)
Hey, GHS, your ultimate "Let's Compare" video was absolutely amazing. Thank you for the time and effort you put in.
1. Arcade 0:51
2. Nintendo Entertainment System 4:47
( Hack of Magic Dragon )
3. ZX Spectrum 7:56
4. Amstrad 11:58
5. Amstrad ( 2012 Remake )
Cinema 15:56 Gameplay 16:47
6. Commodore 64 20:55
7. Enterprise 128
Cinema 24:52 Gameplay 25:58
8. MSX 29:37
9. MSX ( FM Sound Unit ) 33:34
10. Gameboy 37:32
11. Gameboy Color ( R-Type DX ) 41:28
12. Colecovision ( Team Pixelboy ) (not shown)
13. Sega Master System 45:26
14. Sega Mark III ( FM Sound Unit ) 49:23
15. Java Mobile (not shown)
16. Atari ST 53:21
17. Atari ST ( R-Type Deluxe )
Cinema 57:20 Gameplay 58:23
18. Amiga 1:03:33
19. NEC PC-88VA
Cinema 1:07:28 Gameplay 1:08:33
20. Adobe Flash ( R-Type Stage 2 ) (not shown)
21. MS DOS 1:12:30
22. TurboGrafx 16 1:16:29
23. PC Engine CD ( R-Type Complete CD )
Cinema 1:20:27 Gameplay 1:26:55
24. Playstation ( R-Types )
Cinema 1:31:49 Gameplay 1:35:05
25. Evercade ( Irem Arcade 1 ) 1:38:06
26. Sharp X68000 1:42:03
27. iOS / Android 1:46:01
28. PS4 / Switch / Windows / Steam / PS3 / Xbox 360 1:50:00
( R-Type Dimensions EX )
29. Pico 8 1:55:45
30. Genesis / Mega Drive ( Mega R-Type ) 1:59:41
( Work in progress )
Credits 2:03:12
My second favorite shoot'emup in Amiga after project-X.
Brilliant video sir! 👍
Thank you very much ! :D
You missed five more things: The Java Mobile, ColecoVision (Team Pixelboy), Adobe Flash, PC-8801, and Atari Jaguar ports. Also, you need to have the MSX2 logo for the FM sound version. Other than that, nice job on making the video.
The Java is mentioned in the videos other information section. The Colecovision version is the MSX version, The Adobe Flash version is no longer available, There is no PC8801 version & the Jaguar version is the Atari ST version. It would have been redundant to include them.
@@GamingHistorySource True. But still, at least you did such an amazing job.
Wait the pc 88va version is the pc-8801 version
Great video! A complete comparative of this classic game, Ps1 version is awesome. Congrats!
What is your favorite R-Type's port for soundtracks? ;)
Mine should be the arcade and TurboGrafx-16.
Epic video again 👍
Fucking 2 hours???
Hell, yeah XD
DIdnt know there was an NES...or a hack of a nes game to make an R-type. Kind of wish there was an actual version though. Its kind of strange that game somehow came out on nearly every system except the NES/Famicom.
Of course TG16 version would be the same as the PC Engine version; they're the same console.
Where does the MS-DOS version come from? And why it says Nintendo in the title screen? I don't think there was an R-Type port for DOS.
There also more homebrew games in the video other than the Pico and MegaDrive versions. The NES one is also homebrew.
The MS DOS version was an arcade conversion made for DOS but I believe it was the version that was licensed to Nintendo for Arcade Use. If you look at the arcade cabinet, it is a Nintendo Cab. Look at the arcade marquee & you'll see Nintendo on it. Very weird but that's how Irem did it then.
It doesn’t look like any DOS game I’ve ever seen, the graphics are nearly identical to the arcade version. A typical DOS game was 320x200 with 256 colors.
Maybe a much later port. Dont believe that any game released in 1987 could look that good on DOS (obviously using VGA mode and at least strong 386 CPU).
Dude! I just saw one of your “Old” videos. Can you possibly remake the Elevator action video?
Been looking into it. :)
@@GamingHistorySource By the way, when making the Elevator Action remake video, if you don't have the Switch or the PS4, you can either ask for the Arcade Archives footage uploaded by certain TH-camrs or you can simulate the footage from scratch yourself like you did to the Evercade version shown here.
Question: Do you own an Evercade?
They don't have.
Interesting to note the snake boss on the Amiga version is half the size of other versions which seems weird wonder why it didn't match the ST one which is double the length. Also notice that the master system has mad amounts of sprite flicker even though it presumably had harwdware sprites and in contrast the ST that had no hardware sprites has no sprite flicker...most peculiar.
There's a series just like this one but there's Star Fighter Jets with 3 5 7 9 engine Turbine Boosters and 4 UFO Blasters
Where is your Let's Compare Xevious remake video?
I said I would try to get it out by the 15th. It's not finished. Still working on it.
@@GamingHistorySource While you're doing this, can you ask someone on TH-cam for Evercade footage from the The Foreseen Arcade, and Arcade Archives PS4 footage from ThunderFirst1978?
@@GamingHistorySource Okay, got it.
The NES version is surprisingly weak compared to other ports from around the same time.
Woof, that NES version is tragic. Shockingly bad. Even taking into account being an 8-bit machine. The sega master system version is gorgeous, while that NES port looks like a bad gameboy color port.
It appears to be home brew but that is no excuse since the Amstrad home brew is great but for some reason home brew games are not as mainstream as some other platforms
The NES version looks surprisingly good given its limited hardware capabilities. I’d imagine that porting a 16-bit arcade game to an 8-bit console is challenging.
Can you do Xevious remake next? I just have the list of ports all set up and ready to go.
1. Arcade
2. Arcade ( Namco Classic Collection Vol. 1 )
( Xevious Arrangement )
3. Sharp MZ-700 ( Tiny Xevious )
4. Atari 2600 ( Unreleased )
5. Apple 2
6. ZX Spectrum
7. Amstrad
8. Commodore 64
9. Atari 800 XE ( Unreleased )
10. Atari 5200 ( Unreleased )
11. NEC PC-6001mkII ( Tiny Xevious mkII )
12. Sharp X1
13. Fujitsu FM-7
14. NEC PC-8801
15. Sharp MZ-2500
16. Panasonic JR-200U
17. MSX ( The Micro Xevious )
18. Sega Master System ( The Micro Xevious )
19. Java Mobile
( Live Capture Footage by EB1000 2nd Channel )
20. Atari 7800
21. Atari ST
22. Gameboy Advance ( Classic NES Series )
23. Evercade ( Namco Museum Collection 1 )
( Live Capture Footage by The Foreseen Arcade )
24. Nintendo Entertainment System
25. Famicom Disk System
26. Bandai Plug n Play ( Namco Nostalgia 1 )
( Live Capture Footage by Mr. Do's Arcade )
27. Jakks Pacific ( Retro Arcade Featuring Pac-Man )
( Live Capture Footage by SuperViperT302 )
28. MSX 2 ( Xevious: Fardraut Saga )
( Recon Mode - Solvalou & Scramble Mode - Gampmission )
29. Gameboy Color ( Xevious Millennium )
30. PC Engine ( Xevious: Fardraut Densetsu )
( Arcade Mode & Fardraut Mode )
31. Windows ( Microsoft Revenge of Arcade )
32. Sharp X68000
33. PlayStation ( Namco Museum Vol. 2 )
34. PlayStation ( Xevious 3D/G+ )
( Original & Xevious Arrangement )
35. Nintendo DS ( Namco Museum DS )
36. Playstation Portable ( Namco Museum Battle Collection )
37. Xbox / Playstation 2 / Gamecube / Windows
( Namco Museum 50th Anniversary )
38. Nintendo Wii ( Namco Museum Megamix )
39. Playstation 3 ( Namco Museum Essentials )
40. Xbox 360 ( Namco Museum Virtual Arcade )
41. Nintendo 3DS ( Nintendo 3D Classics )
42. Playstation 4 / Nintendo Switch ( Arcade Archives )
( Live Capture Footage by ThunderFist1978 )
Will you make that soon? YES
R-Type comparison should include
Super R-Type >>> Super Nintendo
R-Type Third Lightning GBA/SNES
It really, really shouldn't as they are not the same game. The super nintendo game is a mix of r-type 1 and 2 and the third lightning is a totally different game overall. By that token he should include r-type 2, r-types and every other game that has r-type in the title...