Toaplan

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Toaplan Co., Ltd.

Trade name	Toaplan
Native name	株式会社東亜プラン
Romanized name	Kabushiki gaisha Tōapuran
Company type	Kabushiki gaisha
Industry	Video games
Founded	April 1979; 45 years ago (April 1979)
Founder	Kiyoshi Motoyoshi
Defunct	March 1994; 30 years ago (March 1994)
Fate	Bankruptcy
Headquarters	Shimizu, Suginami, Tokyo
Area served	Japan
Key people	Taizo Hayashi (president) Yoshiyuki Kiyomoto (CEO)
Products	Video games

Toaplan Co., Ltd.^[a] was a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo responsible for the creation of a wide array of scrolling shooters and other arcade video games. The company was founded in 1979 but its gaming division was established in 1984 by former Orca and Crux employees, who wanted to make games, after both companies declared bankruptcy. Their first shoot 'em up game, Tiger-Heli (1985) on arcades, was a success and helped establish Toaplan as a leading producer of shooting games throughout the 1980s and 1990s that would continue to characterize their output.

Though initially exclusive to arcades, they expanded with the Sega Genesis in 1990. The company ceased development of shoot 'em up projects before declaring bankruptcy in 1994. Several offshoot developers such as Tamsoft, Eighting, CAVE, Gazelle, and Takumi Corporation were formed prior to and after the closure, while former members later joined to other studios such as Bandai Namco Entertainment, Capcom, Square Enix and Taito. Toaplan has since earned recognition from critics, being called one of the greatest and most influential Japanese shoot 'em up developers and "master" of the scrolling shooter genre.^[1][2]

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