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The force is with you.
In R-TYPE DX: Music Encore, we have a release aimed at a niche gaming subset in much the same way as SNK’s Neo Geo Pocket collections. As such, some affection for both the era and the original hardware is necessary to appreciate what is essentially a reconstituted, miniaturised version of a much larger arcade game. And, like SNK’s handheld reimaginings of its Neo Geo AES titles, R-Type DX has no choice but to do its own thing — and that’s the reason why it works.
In the ’90s, London-based developer Bits Studios was primarily known for porting other people’s games. These included movie licenses like Alien 3 and Terminator 2, and, of particular historical interest, Gunforce for the Super Nintendo, a lesser-known Irem arcade game. After releasing R-Type and R-Type II for Nintendo’s Game Boy, they were then remastered five years later in R-Type DX (1999), a Game Boy Color title that combined both games into one epic space battle.
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