A Japanese company which developed arcade games, mostly Shoot Em Ups, from 1984 to 1994.
Most of Toaplan's earlier games were distributed by Taito. Their later shoot-em-ups put more and more bullets on the screen, culminating in Batsugun, the Trope Maker for Bullet Hell shooters.
After Toaplan's demise, many of its employees went to CAVE, Eighting Raizing, Takumi and Gazelle.
Nothing to do with plans hatched by a certain species of robotic heroes.
Games developed by Toaplan:[]
Shoot 'em ups[]
- Batsugun
- Dogyuun
- Final Star Force
- Fire Shark
- Flying Shark (also known as Sky Shark)
- Fixeight
- Hellfire
- Out Zone
- Performan
- Slap Fight (also known as ALCON)
- Tiger Heli
- Truxton
- Truxton II
- Twin Cobra
- Twin Hawk
- V-Five (also known as Grind Stormer)
- Vimana
- Zero Wing
Other games[]
- Demon's World
- Knuckle Bash
- Rally Bike
- Snow Bros
- Wardner