RE: Super R-Type (Super Nintendo)
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I absolutely loved my time playing this one back in the day. I never owned it but I rented it several times when the local Hastings was having specials where you got a whole week for the price of a 3 day rental. The last time I rented it I was able to beat it, on Easy but didn't have time to try any of the harder difficulties. Considering how long it took to be able to beat it on Easy, I figured it was just not in my future to beat it at a higher difficulty.
I then started renting Super E.D.F. and simply never returned to Super R-Type. A while later I did pick up a TurboGrafx-16 and was fortunate enough to find the R-Type release there (it only had the first half of the game on the Hu-Card), but never had the CD attachment so didn't get to play R-Type Complete.
Man, Super R-Type certainly held its own, even with the slowdown, against competition like Thunder Force III (Thunder Force on SNES), U.N Squadron and the many other side scrolling shooters the SNES offered.
One of these days I'm going to have to go back and try the TG16 version. I had a TG16 (I bought it at Toys R Us for $49 the same year the PS1 was released) but never had R-Type for it.
It has been many decades since I played it on the TG16 but I remember it being quite good. I ended up picking up other side scrolling shooters on the console such as Deep Blue (second half is awesome) and a few weird ones I cannot remember the names of at the moment.
The TG16 definitely had some great shooters though, both overhead and side scrolling.