R-Type Deluxe blasts its way through a WIP Christmas release for the Atari STe!

Lets go back some months shall we, right back to the July of 2015 when we mentioned the jaw dropping ' R-Type Deluxe ', that was coming to the Atari STe (link). It was meant to be a remake of the most incredible shoot em up of our time, originally produced by Irem in 1987. This remake was set to take the Atari ST scene by storm making full use of the extra hardware, pushing to the limits, its blitter, hardware scrolling and sound chip like never before! Well finally as an end of year update, the developer bod/STAX has released a work in progress version, that according to one such user all stages are playable!

R-Type Deluxe blasting its way towards the Atari STe

You may remember our big article on the Amstrad remake of 'R-Type 128k' which came with high praise and regarded as one of the most downloaded Amstrad homebrew's ever. But there's another remake that is set to take the Atari ST scene by storm and it's 'R-Type Deluxe', which is coming to the Atari STe at some point this year developed by Stephen Jones. For those of you who don't know of R-Type, it is one of the most incredible shoot em ups of our time, originally produced by Irem in 1987 that has been ported to a multitude of systems as you defend humanity against a mysterious alien life form known as the Bydo.