“But wait,” some of you youngsters might be thinking. “How can those stickers I’m always seeing on Toyota Celicas and Mitsubishi Eclipses be coming to my phone? Why would I even want that?”
Take a seat, junior, you might learn something: Before R-Type adorned the window/bumper of every import with a fat pipe and under lighting, it was the name of one of the most iconic and ground-breaking shooters ever made. And now, retro-game refurbisher DotEmu is bringing Irem’s historic xenophobic extermination simulator back to life on September 12, via the Android Marketplace and Amazon’s AppStore for Android.
All of the items and power-ups from the original are said to be present and accounted for, with touch controls taking over for the obviously absent joystick and buttons. Remakes like this strike us as perfect candidates for the Xperia Play, however no details were given as to whether or not Android devices with buttons will be able to circumvent the touch controls. No price point or Android OS version requirements have been given either, but we’d be surprised if it required anything newer than 2.2.
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