Bitwave Games are doing it again, giving us a healthy dose of nostalgia with the Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection Vol.4 that's due to release soon. Plus a teaser of something else to come.
As before with the previous collections they will have full Linux / Steam Deck support. Plus all their quality of life additions to each including:
- Minimal Input Lag: Emulation, input processing, and rendering all complete on the same frame.
- Quick Save using F1-F10, Reload with Shift+ F1-F10
- Online leaderboards for Single Credit, No Assist, and Assisted plays.
- Rewind the game between 10-18 minutes, depending on the action.
- Capture sharable replays to immortalize your interstellar victories (or funny moments).
- Assist Features such as auto-fire at multiple rates.
- Very Easy Mode: Lower the difficulty to breeze through the adventure.
- Pixel perfect or full-screen scaling in windowed or full-screen mode.
- Rotate the gameplay in 90-degree increments.
- Steam Achievements.
- Choose between Raw Input on Windows or Steam Input.
- Hone your skills in the ultra-customizable practice mode!
The games included in this collection will be:
- Truxton II: Enjoy the visually stunning pixel graphics in one of the hardest and most unforgiving Toaplan games!
- Grind Stormer: Experience a vertically scrolling manic shooter featuring impressive pixel art graphics and an upbeat FM soundtrack!
- Dogyuun: Known for its detailed pixel art, colossal bosses, and menacing difficulty. Take on the challenge with a friend and combine your ships into a space-wrecking vehicle!
- Twin Hawk: Call in a formation of six friendly fighter planes and take down powerful enemies in this classic military-themed shoot 'em up!
In a release announcement they also teased "We’ve got more news to share shortly. Please tune in ShooterFes on April 6th, 8am ET / 2pm CEST / 9pm JST, to learn more. See you there!"
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Since the teaser's to do with ShootersFes, I guess we'll be waiting a bit longer to see if they'll be re-releasing Toaplan's non-shooters, like Snow Bros.!
Anyway, good to see them continuing to truck on with these re-releases - lots of companies could learn a thing or two from how these guys're doing it.
Anyway, good to see them continuing to truck on with these re-releases - lots of companies could learn a thing or two from how these guys're doing it.
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