It is a partial port of R-Type II, borrowing stages and enemies, but introducing several of its own.

The game has been re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in 2008, and on the Nintendo Switch Online service in 2024.

Players pilot a ship through the deep cosmos, picking up various supercharged weapons along the way and squaring off against some extraordinarily detailed aliens, which look like illustrations from classic pulp sci-fi magazines of the 1930s.

[7] Super Gamer gave a review score of 74% stating: "It looks brilliant and plays well, but while graphical slowdown isn’t that bad, going back to the start of the level whenever you die soon becomes tedious.

"[8] On March 14, 2008, the game was released on the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console service in Europe and Australia.