R-Type

R-Type is a side scrolling shoot 'em up game released on December 25, 2006 via the Wii Virtual Console. This version of R-Type was originally released on the TurboGrafx-16.

Story
The human of the 26th century created a weapon of "ecological destruction". This weapon was called "Bydo", a self-replicating organism. They were placed in a container the size of the moon and were intended to be sent via wormhole to warp to the enmey system and destroy the planet. However, an "error" liberated the Bydo. They rampaged in the system until they were picked up by a "special weapon" and sent to another dimension. The Bydo evolved in said dimesnion nad found a way to appear in the 22nd century earth. The R-9 "arrowhead" spaceship is send on a mission to stop them.

Gameplay


The most notable feature of R-type is the "Force", the Force (a tammed bydo) is an indestructible sphere that can attach to the back or the front of the player ship to absorb small enemy shot or to be thrown at enemy. The Force start initialy as weaponless , but several colored icons can be picked up. There's also a substitue of the force, called the "Bits", they are small round-object simmilar to the Force, and the player can have two of them, One above and the other below. Another unique feature is the charge shot, by holding the shoot button, it will grow stronger. Fully charged, a shot can cut throught many small enemies.