The Ace Attorney series spun out a more adventure-based outing featuring a beloved prosecutor back in 2009, but it's never received the same kind of constant re-releases as its cousins.
Toaplan closed down in March of 1994, but the employees split off into a number of studios that kept their spirit, and history of innovation, alive.
Regardless of which name you're using, it signaled a change in Toaplan's shoot 'em ups, which would become fully realized only with the legendary successor studio, Cave.
Toaplan's action games often had puzzle elements to them, so of course they eventually made an actual puzzle title.
A wonderful arcade game that somehow didn't end up with a home conversion for roughly three decades.
Toaplan's non-shoot 'em ups rarely succeeded commercially, but Snow Bros. at least managed to become a bit of a cult classic, spawning a sequel and a modern revival, too.
A game so vital to Toaplan's history that a successor studio named themselves using its Japanese moniker, Tatsujin.
Toaplan made an Elevactor Action-style single-screen arcade game featuring a bunch of weirdos, and also made it an eroge. Sure, why not.
Toaplan and Taito worked together throughout Toaplan's existence, as well as shortly after its demise, and now, decades later, too.
Or Dash Rascal, as it was known in Japan. A top-down bike racer that translates Toaplan's memorizer gameplay systems to a new genre.
Toaplan's first shoot 'em up was a hit that set the direction of the studio from that point forward.
Toaplan, one of the great arcade studios of its era, was highly influential in its 10-year run... and well after its closure, too.
