- Toaplan
in 1994.
Popular games from Toaplan include "
Zero Wing ", "Snow Bros ", "Tiger Heli ", "Flying Shark ", "Twin Cobra " and "Out Zone ". As it may be difficult to find these games in their original form, a common way to play them now is using anarcade emulator such as Shark Emulator orMAME .Games
*"
Batsugun "
*"Demon's World " / "Horror Story"
*"Dogyuun"
*"Enma Daio" (King of Hell)
*"Fire Shark " / "Same! Same! Same!"
*"Fix Eight"
*"Flying Shark " / "Sky Shark" / "Hishou Zame" (publisher: Taito Corporation)
*"Ghox"
*"Grindstormer" / "V-5"
*"Guardian" / "Get Star" (publisher:Taito Corporation )
*"Hellfire"
*"Jong Kyou" (Mahjong Mania)
*"Jong Ou" (Mahjong King) (publisher: SNK)
*"Knuckle Bash"
*"Mahjong Sisters"
*"" (Japanese distribution only; developed by Compile)
*"Out Zone "
*"Performan" (publisher:Data East )
*"Pipi & Bibi's " / "Whoopee!"
*"Rally Bike " / "Dash Yarou" (publisher: Taito Corporation)
*"Slap Fight " / "Alcon" (publisher: Taito Corporation)
*"Snow Bros "
*"Snow Bros. 2" / "Otenki Paradise"
*"Teki Paki "
*"Tiger Heli " (publisher: Taito Corporation)
*"Truxton" / "Tatsujin " (publisher: Taito Corporation)
*"Truxton 2" / "Tatsujin Oh"
*"Twin Cobra " / "Kyūkyoku Tiger" (publisher: Taito Corporation)
*"Twin Hawk" / "Daisen Pu" (publisher: Taito Corporation)
*"Vimana"
*"Wardner" / "Pyros" (publisher: Taito Corporation)
*"Zero Wing "Companies spun-off from Toaplan
After Toaplan closed its doors in 1994, several former employees formed or were involved with the following companies:
*Cave
*8ing/Raizing
*Gazelle (creators of "Air Gallet " and the "Sailor Moon" arcade game; both distributed byBanpresto )
*Takumi (creators of "Giga Wing" and "Mars Matrix")External links
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050908125748/http://www.toaplan.com/ Toaplan.com (archived)] , unofficial source of information on Toaplan games.
* [http://www.neo-arcadia.com/dossiers/toaplan/toaplan.php Toaplan history (Neo-Arcadia)] , History of Toaplan (in french)
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