Toaplan / Cave Connection

Berty · Post by **Berty** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:26 am

Who where the guys from Toaplan that formed Cave? Also, didn't the some guys from Video System join Cave, or was that Psikyo?

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:30 pm

Kenichi Takano (president of Cave) and Tsuneki Ikeda (chief programmer/director on all of their shmups) are ex-Toaplan guys. Also Akira Wakabayashi ( i forgot his surname, it ends in yashi i think

EDIT: corrected the name

) worked on many of their titles and was Toaplan. Other Toaplan guys went to Gazelle (a sub-section of Banpresto?) and Shinobu Yagawa worked at Raizing. The Psikyo guy was Shin Nakamura, who worked at Video System.

incognoscente · Post by **incognoscente** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:00 pm

Wakabayashi. :)

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:32 pm

Randorama wrote:Kenichi Takano (president of Cave) and Tsuneki Ikeda (chief programmer/director on all of their shmups) are ex-Toaplan guys. Also Akira Wakabayashi ( i forgot his surname, it ends in yashi i think EDIT: corrected the name ) worked on many of their titles and was Toaplan. Other Toaplan guys went to Gazelle (a sub-section of Banpresto?) and Shinobu Yagawa worked at Raizing. The Psikyo guy was Shin Nakamura, who worked at Video System.

do you know if any cave dudes worked on twin cobra? that would be something.

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:33 am

chtimi wrote: do you know if any cave dudes worked on twin cobra? that would be something.

I would really like to know. Legend says that Shinobu Yagawa (the guy behind the Bat- Raizing shmups) did, but it's totally uncofirmed. At any case, Tsuneki Ikeda should have started working at Toaplan with Slap Fight Alcon (unconfirmed) and he surely has worked on Tatsujin (interview with Gamest as a proof, dunno about the number in which it appears).