I absolutely loved my time playing this one back in the day. I never owned it but I rented it several times when the local Hastings was having specials where you got a whole week for the price of a 3 day rental. The last time I rented it I was able to beat it, on Easy but didn't have time to try any of the harder difficulties. Considering how long it took to be able to beat it on Easy, I figured it was just not in my future to beat it at a higher difficulty.

I then started renting Super E.D.F. and simply never returned to Super R-Type. A while later I did pick up a TurboGrafx-16 and was fortunate enough to find the R-Type release there (it only had the first half of the game on the Hu-Card), but never had the CD attachment so didn't get to play R-Type Complete.

Man, Super R-Type certainly held its own, even with the slowdown, against competition like Thunder Force III (Thunder Force on SNES), U.N Squadron and the many other side scrolling shooters the SNES offered.