Toaplan
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Toaplan (東亜プラン Tōa Puran?) was a video game developer from Japan. They were responsible for the creation of a wide array of relatively famous scrolling shooters and arcade games, yet the company declared bankruptcy in 1994.
Today, they are best known for Zero Wing, the source of the "All your base are belong to us" phenomenon. Other games from Toaplan include 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 an arcade emulator such as Shark Emulator or MAME.
[edit] Games
- Batsugun
- Demon's World / Horror Story
- Dogyuun
- Enma Daio (King of Hell)
- Ghox
- Grindstormer / V-5
- Guardian / Get Star (publisher: Taito Corporation)
- Hellfire
- Fire Shark / Same! Same! Same!
- Fix Eight
- Flying Shark / Sky Shark / Hishou Zame (publisher: Taito Corporation)
- Jong Kyou (Mahjong Mania)
- Jong Ou (Mahjong King) (publisher: SNK)
- Knuckle Bash
- Mahjong Sisters
- Musha Aleste: Full Metal Fighter Ellinor (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
[edit] Companies spun-off from Toaplan
After Toaplan closed its doors in 1994, several former employees has formed or were involved with the following companies:
- Cave
- 8ing/Raizing
- Gazelle (creators of Air Gallet [Akuu Gallet] and the Sailor Moon arcade game; both are distributed by Banpresto)
- Takumi (creators of Giga Wing and Mars Matrix)
[edit] External links
- Toaplan.com (archived), unofficial source of information on Toaplan games.
- Toaplan history (Neo-Arcadia), History of Toaplan (in french)
