Toaplan Arcade Shoot’em Ups 1 Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · Published February 21, 2023 · Updated February 21, 2023

For our Toaplan Arcade Shoot’em Ups 1 Review, which offers us four arcade cult classics for a great price! It’s quadruple the action, a billion times the fun, and a thrill ride back in time to the neon-lit arcades of the 80s!

Toaplan Arcade Shoot’em Ups 1 Review Pros:

Stunning graphics from the 80s.
10.33MB download size. (combined)
Steam achievements for each game.
Four games in one – Zero Wing, Twin Cobra, Out Zone, and Truxton.
Full controller support.
Shmup gameplay.
Local two-player Co-op.
Play together support.
Game region/version can be set in each game and every version is available.
Four difficulties.
Classic arcade leaderboards with initials entry.
Customize each game with starting lives, and extra life scores continue.
Assist options – 3 modes (custom/very easy/arcade), doge, auto fire, health, show hitboxes, and rewind.
You can record and save gameplay and replays.
Save when you want with both quick save and manual hard save. This includes loading a save aswel.
Online leaderboards.
Border settings – overlay (off/tutorial/music visualizer/channel visualizer/stats), frame on/off, and choice of backdrop.
Supports both the controller and the keyboard.
You can rebind keys for both inputs.
Video settings – view type, scale, rotate the screen, widescreen, fullscreen, and screen type (pixels/scanlines/smooth steps).
Practice mode is available in each game.
Truxon is a typical arcade Shmup where you clear the screen of enemies by collecting power-ups for your ship.
Out Zone is a shooter like Ikari Warriors where you control a character and collect power-ups as you make your way up the screen, the twist is you have to keep collecting power to stay alive.
Twin Cobra is a Shmup where you are in a helicopter, it’s a much faster and harder game to master.
Zero Wing is more in the style of an R – Type so a side-scrolling shooter.
It’s a huge nostalgia trip.
The music in each game is Chiptune greatness.
A lot of love and work went into these titles.
Each game has smart bombs which clear the screen.

Toaplan Arcade Shoot’em Ups 1 Review Cons:

The tutorials are just border art.
None of the music has options.
The games come down as four seperate entries in your library.
The screen settings never seem to stay saved so you have to configure them every time.
You don’t get any history or anything with the games.

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