Classics like “Zero Wing” have lost nothing of their charm.
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Back in the 80s and 90s, Toaplan was one of the leading Arcade Shmbup developers in Japan and these two game collections certainly justify it.
These two collections are divided into 8 games per piece, with Volume 1 contain Flying shark; Firefighter; Tiger heli; Cobra; Exit; Correct eight; Batsugun, and Dogs; Volume 2 including Zero wing; Hell; Raid; Grinding storm; Truxtton; Truxton 2; Buman; Twin hawk.
In addition to the local co-op game in some of these games, you also get the different arcade variants circulating around the world, as well as the Japanese prototypes. The doors of the monitoring console of these Arcade games are not unfortunately included, as this is meant to be a purely arcade gaming collection.
That on the edge, Toaplan’s The story was an abnormal, but he was born multiple game studios after his closure, mainly that of the cave.
This is remarkable as “sphere“The Debauchery Cave has become known. It appears in many of these previous games, which makes this collection fascinating in a historical sense.
The other two big additions here are Hairpin and Zero wing. While the latter is known for this legendary terrible English trackingBoth were extremely innovative horizontal shMups for their time.
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‘Hellfire’ was a very innovative shMup for its time.
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Hairpin gave several ways for your ship to shoot his decree, which later the games like Radiant silver used. However, for his time, it was a shocking development.
Zero wing It also had some exciting elements, that is, the tractor beam you could use to deal with enemies on the front of your ship and use as a shield. Again, this was later adopted as an important feature in games such as G-Darius.
The other big thing for these classic shMups toaplan was that it just looked gorgeous and paved the way for some of the most beautiful 2D pixel art games ever created.
Thus, this collection has a lot to offer to people, not only those young people in shmups, but also veterans who lose while playing some of the classics of the genre.
In terms of different quality of life features, you have a Rewind option and save situations as well as many other adaptation options and all games run very smoothly on the switch.
Total, Collection toaplan Arcade VOL 1 & 2 It covers the edge of Toaplan’s Shmup exit. It is also a comprehensive collection, including international variants for each of these classic Arcade games. Although I suspect Zero wing Terrible tracking will still be a tie for some of the old school fans.
Collection toaplan Arcade VOL 1 & Volume 2
Platform: Switch (reviewed), PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series x | S
Programmer: Bitwave games
Publisher: Clear River Games
Released: August 14th 2025
Price: $ 34.99 (each)
Score: 8/10
Revelation: Clear River Games sent me copies of these games for the purposes of this review.
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