toaplan.com

mulletgeezer · Post by **mulletgeezer** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:17 pm

I'm noticing recently that www.toaplan.com has some content on it again - not the cool history stuff from before, just some gash placeholder crap, including a nonworking Shop page. Of course Toaplan are long dead and the domain's whois info shows some US company under the contact info. Does anybody know what is occuring here?

Gungriffon Geona · Post by **Gungriffon Geona** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:23 pm

what the hell? what a strange site. moreover, the "products" page lists only Zero Wing. something fishy's going on here.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:29 am

Here's the old site with the good stuff:

http://web.archive.org/web/200406290808 ... aplan.com/

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:31 am

Odd as hell. Damn, shoulda bought the URL when I had the chance ;)

Doubtful that Toaplan is actually back (in any form) and developing future games. I can be hopeful, but this sounds scammy.

stratos · Post by **stratos** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:01 am

Doubtful that Toaplan is actually back (in any form) and developing future games. I can be hopeful, but this sounds scammy.

Eh eh eh eh eh... From my point of view, Toaplan never died, since Cave features some of the most important figures in Toaplan; first Cave shooter, Donpachi (1995) seems to be an evolution of the Batsugun gameplay, and has Truxton-like enemies and scenarios, as well as Dodonpachi... and in the default Donpachi scorebord, if you read the three letter names of the player VERTICALLY you can see the words: Toaplan forever.

Plus, Toaplan published Knuckle Bash in '93, and Cave published Knuckle Bash sequel in the further years... so I like to think that, basically, Cave is Toaplan.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:54 am

stratos wrote:Plus, Toaplan published Knuckle Bash in '93, and Cave published Knuckle Bash sequel in the further years... so I like to think that, basically, Cave is Toaplan.

KB2? A bootleg; if you mean the game in MAME that is. Game never should've been made. Artistically speaking, Toaplan was better when their artists plied their talent in drawing surreal war machinery than in drawing fruity fighting characters or anime people (all of questionable merit).

And I don't buy that "Cave is Toaplan" stuff, since I don't get into the games. Even looking beyond visuals and music, the substance of the games has changed a lot, even if Toaplan was moving in that direction already with Batsugun ;) For me, Toaplan is Fire Shark, Outzone, and Get Star. D:

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:50 am

If this was really Toaplan why isn't it a co.jp domain and what's with the "nice in '96" layout?

stratos · Post by **stratos** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:31 am

even if Toaplan was moving in that direction already with Batsugun

I think that if Toaplan continued to exist, they had produced a game very similar to Donpachi, being in it some actual Cave members; you coul'd say that Toaplan had also members of other modern sftwarehouses, like Yagawa, but Cave is definitely the company that resembles Toaplan style the much.