How are you gentlemen! All your Toaplan shooters are belong to Bitwave.

Publisher Bitwave Games recently announced that the first wave of four classic Toaplan shoot ‘em up titles is coming to Windows PC on 14 February 2023 (Yep- St. Valentine’s Day).

Here’s the list of the games and Bitwave Games’ official announcement trailer from Steam:

Today we’re pumped to announce that Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol.1 hits Steam on February 14, 2023. Forget the flowers this Valentine’s Day – start building the ultimate library of classic arcade shmups with your beloved one instead!

Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol.1 consists of a well-curated selection of classic shmups; Zero Wing, Out Zone, Twin Cobra, and Truxton, all enhanced with Quality of Life features, Achievements, Online Leaderboards, and much more.

Out Zone

Blast through alien hordes as the finest cyborg mercenary in existence! To emerge victorious, you’ll need to manage time and resources skillfully. Toaplan’s run-and-gun smash-hit finally arrives on PC, reloaded with new features and quality-of-life extras!

Truxton (aka Tatsujin)

The ruthless Gidans invite you to an explosive space scramble! Head into the mighty Super Fighter and disintegrate your foes in all directions with various upgradeable weapons. Toaplan’s no-frills vertical shooter Truxton speeds onto PC with new features and quality-of-life updates!

Twin Cobra

Blast battalions of tanks into smoking craters and conquer air and sea from the sky’s fastest attack chopper! Toaplan’s coin-op shooter Twin Cobra flies to PC with fresh features and quality-of-life updates!

Zero Wing

Defend the galaxy from vicious space pirates! Seize your foes and fire them back at their allies for devastating destruction in Toaplan’s legendary horizontal arcade shooter and source of the popular meme “All your base are belong to us.” Now on PC with all-new features and quality-of-life bonuses!

You can “take off every Zig” “for great justice” on GOG and Steam PC this February. And try Truxton for Pete’s sake. It’s pretty darn good.

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