"R-Type II" for the Amiga is a downgraded though faithful conversion of the original arcade game. It was positively received by magazine critics of the time garnering praise for its accuracy. It was converted by Arc Developments and the graphics were hand-created pixel-by-pixel by in-house graphic artist Jon Harrison. It is missing all the new weapons though (search laser, shotgun laser, scatter bomb) and the helper bits have no firing capability. The same goes for the Atari ST version which misses much gfx and any parallax, but the gameplay and level design remain as faithful to the original as the Amiga version.