Toaplan ( 東 亜 プ ラ ン To: a Puran ) is a Japanese video game developer. The company has developed many famous games in the genre of scroll-shooters for arcade arcade machines and has influenced the development of the genre.
| Toaplan 東 亜 プ ラ ン | |
|---|---|
| Base | |
| Abolished | |
| Location |  Japan |
| Industry | Gaming Industry |
| Site | |
In 1994 , the company was declared bankrupt . After the company was closed, some of its former employees founded new companies, which also became well-known developers of scroll-shooters:
- Cave
- 8ing / raizing
- Gazelle (developer of Air Gallet and the arcade version of Sailor Moon ; both games were distributed by Banpresto )
- Takumi (developer of Giga Wing and Mars Matrix )
Games
- Batsugun
- Demon's World / Horror Story
- Dogyuun
- Enma Daio (King of Hell)
- Fire Shark / Same! Same! Same!
- Fix sight
- Flying Shark / Sky Shark / Hishou Zame (published by Taito Corporation)
- Ghox
- Grindstormer / v-5
- Guardian / Get Star (published by Taito Corporation )
- Hellfire
- Jong Kyou (Mahjong Mania)
- Jong Ou (Mahjong King) (published by SNK )
- Knuckle bash
- Mahjong sisters
- Musha Aleste: Full Metal Fighter Ellinor (game developed by Compile , Toaplan served as a publisher in Japan)
- Out zone
- Performan (published by Data East )
- Pipi & Bibi's / Whoopee!
- Rally Bike / Dash Yarou (published by Taito Corporation)
- Slap Fight / Alcon (published by Taito Corporation)
- Snow bros
- Snow bros 2 / Otenki Paradise
- Teki paki
- Tiger Heli (published by Taito Corporation)
- Truxton / Tatsujin (published by Taito Corporation)
- Truxton 2 / Tatsujin Oh
- Twin Cobra / Kyukyoku Tiger (published by Taito Corporation)
- Twin Hawk / Daisen Pu (published by Taito Corporation)
- Vimana
- Wardner / Pyros (published by Taito Corporation)
- Zero wing
Links
- Toaplan.com (copy on archive.org) , an unofficial site dedicated to Toaplan games
- History of Toaplan (Neo-Arcadia) (Fr.)