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The music of Super Metroid and Metroid Metal
Super Metroid took the spirit of the original's mood-setting music, added its own unsettling atmosphere, but left enough space for a metal band to…
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Re-release this: The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
One of the few Goemon games to ever make it out of Japan is also a classic.
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It's new to me: Arkista's Ring
The rare NES game that didn't get a Japanese release. Or any other since its initial one
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Re-release this: Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
The Ace Attorney series spun out a more adventure-based outing featuring a beloved prosecutor back in 2009, but it's never received the same kind of…
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Remembering Toaplan: Successors and Legacy
Toaplan closed down in March of 1994, but the employees split off into a number of studios that kept their spirit, and history of innovation, alive.
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March 2024

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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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