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Remembering Toaplan: V-V, aka Grind Stormer
Regardless of which name you're using, it signaled a change in Toaplan's shoot 'em ups, which would become fully realized only with the legendary…
Mar 27
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan: Teki Paki
Toaplan's action games often had puzzle elements to them, so of course they eventually made an actual puzzle title.
Mar 25
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan: Out Zone
A wonderful arcade game that somehow didn't end up with a home conversion for roughly three decades.
Mar 22
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Marc Normandin
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The top 101 Nintendo games of all-time
Sep 28, 2020
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Marc Normandin
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Ranking the top 101 Nintendo games: No. 1, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Jun 9, 2021
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Marc Normandin
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Ranking the top 101 Nintendo games: No. 3, Super Mario Galaxy 2
Jun 4, 2021
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Marc Normandin
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Ranking the top 101 Nintendo games: No. 6, Super Metroid
May 28, 2021
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Marc Normandin
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25 years of the N64: The N64's controller is good, actually
Sep 27, 2021
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan: Snow Bros.
Toaplan's non-shoot 'em ups rarely succeeded commercially, but Snow Bros. at least managed to become a bit of a cult classic, spawning a sequel and a…
Mar 18
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan: Truxton
A game so vital to Toaplan's history that a successor studio named themselves using its Japanese moniker, Tatsujin.
Mar 16
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan: Pipi & Bibi's
Toaplan made an Elevactor Action-style single-screen arcade game featuring a bunch of weirdos, and also made it an eroge. Sure, why not.
Mar 12
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan: The enduring relationship with Taito
Toaplan and Taito worked together throughout Toaplan's existence, as well as shortly after its demise, and now, decades later, too.
Mar 8
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan: Rally Bike
Or Dash Rascal, as it was known in Japan. A top-down bike racer that translates Toaplan's memorizer gameplay systems to a new genre.
Mar 6
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan: Tiger-Heli
Toaplan's first shoot 'em up was a hit that set the direction of the studio from that point forward.
Mar 4
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan: It's been 30 years since Toaplan shut down
Toaplan, one of the great arcade studios of its era, was highly influential in its 10-year run... and well after its closure, too.
Mar 1
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Marc Normandin
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Remembering Toaplan
Toaplan closed down in March of 1994, but the studio lives on in a number of ways in the present.
Mar 1
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XP Arcade: Rally 2011 LED Storm
A futuristic racer from Capcom's past that separates itself from the pack with some unique mechanics.
Feb 26
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Marc Normandin
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