One of the highlights of both the Saturn and Treasure's library, which should tell you something out of the gate.
No, no, not that Gun Frontier. The other one.
One of the most influential and impactful video games ever, to the point that even developers who didn't make shooting games credit it for inspiring them.
Another Disc Station release makes its way to D4's EggConsole service on the Switch.
What if a shmup was about disco? In spaaaaaaace
Toaplan, one of the great arcade studios of its era, was highly influential in its 10-year run... and well after its closure, too.
Zanac wasn't Compile's first game by any means, and not even its first shoot 'em up, but it's where their real legacy and mark on the industry began.
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 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.
There are already so many Kirby games, spanning a number of genres. There should be even more Kirby games, though.
An early Compile shooting game that shows off both their programming chops and imagination.
Compile might be no more, but there's nothing stopping former devs of the shoot 'em up legend from working together on something new in the present.
