The new Toaplan Arcade Collection boasts 16 games and is heading to your Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox console.
One classic arcade company that has taken advantage of modern platforms is Toaplan, and thanks to Clear River Games, both Toaplan Arcade collections are being issued today, so you can buy either or both!
Toaplan Arcade Collection trailer
Here’s the Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 1 & 2 trailer
This collection adds significant quality of life improvements to these arcade classics:
- PS5/PS4 and Xbox One and Series X|S now include Achievements and Trophies
- Online Leaderboards, so you can test your mettle against the best!
- Stat Tracking allows title-specific tracking of stats from your game sessions
- Dip Switch Selection – to recreate customisable arcade settings, such as region, lives, difficulty and autofire
- Assist Features – even more aid features such as smaller hitboxes and increased player durability to let you take additional hits before dying, and slowdown/speed-up
- Customisable Audio Settings and Screen Settings to recreate the sights and sounds of the original arcades
- Rewind Function – so you can go back and correct that little mistake that ruined your run (and high score!)
- Quick Save/Load – allowing you to create up to to six save slots per title
What’s in volume 1?
Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 1 contains the following titles:
- Flying Shark
- Fire Shark (local cooperative support)
- Tiger Heli
- Twin Cobra (local cooperative support)
- Out Zone (local cooperative support)
- Fixeight (local cooperative support)
- Batsugun (local cooperative support)
- Dogyuun (local cooperative support)
Several of the games have been reissued previously, such as on Evercade, or in the Amusement Arcade Toaplan collection on mobile.
Games in Toaplan Arcade Collection Vol. 2
The second volume contains more genuine arcade classics:
- Zero Wing (local cooperative support)
- Hellfire (local cooperative support)
- Slap Fight
- Grind Stormer
- Truxton
- Truxton II (local cooperative support)
- Vimana (local cooperative support)
- Twin Hawk (local cooperative support)
Using original ROMs, these new console ports can be picked up now. Head to the Clear River Games website for details.
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