Every TOAPLAN Shoot Em Up Reviewed and Ranked using Real Arcade Hardware. With special guest Tatsuya Uemura of Toaplan and his TOP 5 Picks! An Arcade STG legend that helped define the genre in the 80s, then ushered in a new era of bullet hell in the 90s. Mega Drive, PC Engine, and Sega Saturn ports followed, but Toaplan was born of the arcade. Truxton, Twin Cobra, Zero Wing, Batsugun. Any fan of shooting games knows Toaplan, with famous developers like Raizing and Cave not having existed without them.
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Are you a fan of Toaplan? Then don't miss the amazing documentary
"All Your Base are Belong to TOAPLAN":
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/josephmpierce/all-your-base-are-belong-to-toaplan
Chapters:
00:00:00 - All Your Base are Belong to TOAPLAN
00:03:23 - Tiger Heli
00:07:16 - Slap Fight
00:12:56 - Flying Shark (Hishouzame)
00:16:27 - Twin Cobra (Kyuukyoku Tiger)
00:20:18 - Truxton (Tatsujin)
00:26:05 - Hellfire
00:29:24 - Twin Hawk (Daisenpuu)
00:32:29 - Zero Wing
00:36:55 - Fire Shark (Same! Same! Same!)
00:41:28 - Outzone
00:45:36 - Vimana
00:48:57 - Truxton II (Tatsujin Ou)
00:54:11 - FixEight
00:57:58 - Dogyuun
01:02:44 - Grind Stormer (V-V)
01:09:40 - Batsugun
01:14:58 - TOP 5 PICKS by TATSUYA UEMURA!
01:18:36 - The Wild Bunch
Special Thanks to Tatsuya Uemura of former Toaplan for his TOP 5 Picks!
Shmuplations.com for the invaluable translated interviews that make videos like this and others better than they could ever otherwise be.
Huge Thanks to Joseph Pierce for the gameplay footage using original arcade Toaplan PCBs. This video couldn't have existed without your help.
Additional Gameplay Footage Thanks:
Jaimers 1-All Same! Same! Same!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slsJtc9kJF4&t=2409s
Flobeamer 1-All Tatsujin Ou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6BnKYpJ7d0
Jaimers 1-All Dogyuun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhgFbGAfjeM