Once upon a time, Toaplan was widely regarded as being one of the finest shmup developers in the business. Titles like Tiger-Heli, Flying Shark and Truxton helped set the standard for the developer and the genre in general and although Toaplan declared bankruptcy in 1994 its games certainly haven’t been forgotten.
In more recent years Toaplan shooters have had something of a resurgence due to the vast majority of its IP being owned by Tatsujin, which was recently acquired by Embracer Group. M2 has been releasing various Toaplan games since, , and have appeared courtesy of Retro-Bit. Hell, we’ve even had a Switch and PS4 update of and a couple of Toaplan shooters recently popped up on Sega’s Astro City Mini V.
