Toaplan (東亜プラン, Tōa Puran^?) was a video game developer from Japan. They were responsible for the creation of a wide array of relatively famous scrolling shooters and arcade games, yet the company declared bankruptcy in 1994.

Popular games from Toaplan include Zero Wing, Snow Bros, Tiger Heli, Flying Shark, Twin Cobra and Out Zone. As it may be difficult to find these games in their original form, a common way to play them now is using an arcade emulator such as Shark Emulator or MAME.

[edit] Games Developed (Arcade)

Year	Game	Publisher
1984	Jong Ou (Mahjong King)	SNK
1985	Performan	Data East
1985	Tiger Heli	Taito Corporation
1985	Jong Kyou (Mahjong Mania)	Data East
1986	Guardian / Get Star	Taito Corporation
1986	Alcon / Slap Fight	Taito Corporation
1986	Mahjong Sisters	Toaplan
1987	Flying Shark / Hishouzame	Taito Corporation
1987	Pyros / Wardner No Mori	Taito Corporation
1987	Twin Cobra / Kyokyoku Tiger	Taito Corporation
1988	Rally Bike / Dash Yarou	Taito Corporation
1988	Truxton / Tatsujin	Taito Corporation
1989	Hellfire	Taito Corporation
1989	Twin Hawk / Daisenpu	Taito Corporation
1989	Zero Wing	Taito Corporation
1989	Demon's World / Horror Story	Taito Corporation
1989	Fire Shark / Same! Same! Same!	Romstar
1990	Out Zone	Romstar
1990	Snow Bros	Romstar
1991	Vimana	Romstar
1991	Teki Paki	Toaplan
1991	Ghox	Romstar
1992	Pipi & Bibi's / Whoopee!!	Romstar
1992	Dogyuun!!	Toaplan
1992	Truxton II / Tatsujin Ou	Toaplan
1992	FixEight	Toaplan
1993	Grind Stormer / V-V	Toaplan
1993	Enma Daio (King of Hell)	Toaplan
1993	Knuckle Bash	Toaplan
1993	Batsugun	Toaplan
1994	Snow Bros. 2 (Otenki Paradise)	Hanafram

[edit] Companies spun-off from Toaplan

After Toaplan closed its doors in 1994, several former employees formed or were involved with the following companies:

• Cave
• 8ing/Raizing
• Gazelle (creators of Air Gallet and the Sailor Moon arcade game; both distributed by Banpresto)
• Takumi (creators of Giga Wing and Mars Matrix)

[edit] External links

• Toaplan.com (archived), unofficial source of information on Toaplan games.
• Toaplan history (Neo-Arcadia), History of Toaplan (in french)