One of the great arcade developers of the 80s was a little company called Irem. It's best known for R-Type but at the time it put a good number of hits,
ININ Games, Tozai Games, and IREM have announced IREM Collection Volume 1, a new re-release of classic IREM titles – some of which have never come west.
Hamster s Arcade Archives line of retro re-releases consists of hundreds of games at this point, covering decades of arcade gaming history. It s only natural that one of the most popular genres of the arcade scene, the shoot-em-up, makes up a huge part of the line-up.