Toaplan is a legendary developer at this level, having helped propel the shoot-em-up style to new heights within the late 80’s and early 90’s. While they burned brightly for a couple of brief years, they developed a variety of extremely influential titles. One of the hallmarks of Toaplan video games is their stage of problem. Most of their video games are thought of among the many most troublesome within the style, not less than by way of earlier video games, previous to the shift towards manic and danmaku model. Toaplan has a pair video games that stand above the remaining, by way of the sheer problem, nonetheless.

Upon its launch in arcades, Toaplan’s Same! Same! Same! instantly stood out compared to its predecessor, Hishouszame, which we knew within the West as Flying Shark. At the time, it might have been thought of one of the vital troublesome shooter that had launched as much as that time. Thankfully, when the sport got here westward, the problem was tempered considerably, in order to not flip gamers away. The renamed Fire Shark additionally obtained a house launch on the Sega Megadrive and Genesis, and Toaplan themselves took the time to retool the sport to steadiness it higher. Join the RF Generation in November 2022 as we tackle certainly one of Toaplan’s most notorious challenges with Fire Shark!