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According to Famitsu, Super R-Type sold 109,120 copies in its first week on the market and 190,374 copies during its lifetime in Japan.
Entertainment Weeklys Bob Strauss picked the game as the second greatest game available in 1991, saying: "The space-shooting R-Type game has been evolving over the last several years; this latest incarnation is the most graphically overpowering yet.
According to Famitsu, Super R-Type sold 109,120 copies in its first week on the market and 190,374 copies during its lifetime in Japan.
The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game eighth in popularity in its October 1991 issue, and it received a 22.1/30 score in a readers' poll conducted by Super Famicom Magazine.
Super Gamer stated that "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".
However, it was removed from the Virtual Console on March 30, 2012, in North America and on March 31, 2012, in Europe.
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