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R-Type Leo R-Type Leo - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

R-Type Leo - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

The third installment of the sideways scrolling shoot-em-up classic. The customary orb has been replaced with two smaller orbs which power-up with assorted devastation. Six levels of action-packed carnage.

R-Type Leo was produced by Irem in 1992.

Irem released 87 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Irem was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Irem during the time period R-Type Leo was produced include: Bomber Man, Atomic Punk, Gallop Armed Police Unit, Dynablaster, Blade Master, Dynablaster Global Conquest, Mahou Keibitai Ganhooki, Atomic Punk Global Quest, Bomber Man World, and Hook

R-Type Leo
R-Type Leo

Specs

Name R-Type Leo
Developer Irem (Japan)
Year 1992
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9221
Class Wide Release
Genre Space
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 1 - Fire
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

R-Type Leo KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Miscellaneous

This game was only released in Japan.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op R-Type Leo Census

There are 14,754 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,475 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,460 machines (6,896 unique titles).

Common - There are 47 known instances of this machine owned by R-Type Leo collectors who are active members. Of these, 8 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 39 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for R-Type Leo. There are 3 active VAPS members looking for R-Type Leo boards sets.

This game ranks a 11 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 7 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Legacy

  1. R-Type
  2. R-Type II
  3. R-Type Leo

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