04-19-2020, 11:27 AM
M2 Is Making A Stupidly Expensive Shooter More Affordable On Home Consoles
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<p>A while back, emulation expert M2 <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/12/m2_is_bringing_toaplans_back_catalogue_to_modern_consoles">announced</a> that it had acquired the rights to bring a bunch of classic Toaplan shooters to home consoles. Toaplan – famous for hits such as <strong>Hellfire</strong>, <strong>Zero Wing</strong> and <strong>Snow Bros.</strong> – folded in the mid-’90s but would spawn Cave and Raizing, as well as other shooter companies.</p>
<p>M2 plans to bring every Toaplan title – with the exception of <strong>Mahjong Sisters</strong> and <strong>Enma Daiō</strong> – to consoles as part of its M2 Shot Triggers x Toaplan series, and has now revealed the first few games. Soon, we’ll be able to play <strong>Twin Cobra</strong> (1987), <strong>Flying Shark</strong> (1987), <strong>Out Zone</strong> (1990) and – perhaps most exciting of all – <strong>Truxton 2</strong>, also know as <strong>Tatsujin Ō</strong> in Japan.</p>
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<div class="col"><a title="Truxton 2 in action" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/662c66d8dfab7/truxton-2-in-action.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" width="445" height="245" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/662c66d8dfab7/truxton-2-in-action.445x245.jpg" alt="Truxton 2 in action"></a><a title="Truxton 2 in action" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/be5540acb2297/truxton-2-in-action.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" width="445" height="245" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/be5540acb2297/truxton-2-in-action.445x245.jpg" alt="Truxton 2 in action"></a></div>
<div class="col"><a title="Truxton 2 in action" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/88fd3f9fc3a8d/truxton-2-in-action.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" width="445" height="245" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/88fd3f9fc3a8d/truxton-2-in-action.445x245.jpg" alt="Truxton 2 in action"></a><a title="Truxton 2 in action" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/8a41226894194/truxton-2-in-action.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" width="445" height="245" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/8a41226894194/truxton-2-in-action.445x245.jpg" alt="Truxton 2 in action"></a></div>
<p class="caption">Truxton 2 in action</p>
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<p>This 1992 blaster is considered to be something of a genre classic but was only ported to the FM Towns. That version – which wasn’t quite arcade perfect – now changes hands for well over a thousand dollars on the secondary market, often more, and the original arcade PCB is also very expensive these days.</p>
<figure class="picture strip"><a title="Tatsujin-Oh eBay" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/235398a8b85c0/tatsujin-oh-ebay.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/235398a8b85c0/tatsujin-oh-ebay.900x.jpg" alt="Tatsujin-Oh eBay"></a></figure>
<p>M2 hasn’t confirmed which platforms its Toaplan titles will be coming to, but given that it has chosen to support Switch with <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/esp_ra_de_psi">ESP.Ra.De Psi</a></strong>, there’s a good chance we’ll be playing these games on your favourite hybrid console – and when you consider you can run titles in TATE mode with the <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/11/hardware_review_flip_grip_the_dream_peripheral_for_shmup_addicts">Flip Grip</a>, it could be the best platform to rediscover these classic titles on.</p>
<p>No release date has been confirmed, either, but M2 has revealed that it’s all-new shooter <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/02/we_really_really_hope_m2s_new_shooter_comes_to_switch">Senjin</a></strong> will hit Japanese arcades later this year.</p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2020/04/...-consoles/
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<figure class="picture strip"><a title="Truxton 2" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/4b4b1e7429ab5/truxton-2.original.jpg"><img src="http://images.nintendolife.com/4b4b1e7429ab5/truxton-2.900x.jpg" alt="Truxton 2"></a></figure>
<p>A while back, emulation expert M2 <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/12/m2_is_bringing_toaplans_back_catalogue_to_modern_consoles">announced</a> that it had acquired the rights to bring a bunch of classic Toaplan shooters to home consoles. Toaplan – famous for hits such as <strong>Hellfire</strong>, <strong>Zero Wing</strong> and <strong>Snow Bros.</strong> – folded in the mid-’90s but would spawn Cave and Raizing, as well as other shooter companies.</p>
<p>M2 plans to bring every Toaplan title – with the exception of <strong>Mahjong Sisters</strong> and <strong>Enma Daiō</strong> – to consoles as part of its M2 Shot Triggers x Toaplan series, and has now revealed the first few games. Soon, we’ll be able to play <strong>Twin Cobra</strong> (1987), <strong>Flying Shark</strong> (1987), <strong>Out Zone</strong> (1990) and – perhaps most exciting of all – <strong>Truxton 2</strong>, also know as <strong>Tatsujin Ō</strong> in Japan.</p>
<aside class="gallery">
<div class="col"><a title="Truxton 2 in action" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/662c66d8dfab7/truxton-2-in-action.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" width="445" height="245" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/662c66d8dfab7/truxton-2-in-action.445x245.jpg" alt="Truxton 2 in action"></a><a title="Truxton 2 in action" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/be5540acb2297/truxton-2-in-action.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" width="445" height="245" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/be5540acb2297/truxton-2-in-action.445x245.jpg" alt="Truxton 2 in action"></a></div>
<div class="col"><a title="Truxton 2 in action" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/88fd3f9fc3a8d/truxton-2-in-action.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" width="445" height="245" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/88fd3f9fc3a8d/truxton-2-in-action.445x245.jpg" alt="Truxton 2 in action"></a><a title="Truxton 2 in action" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/8a41226894194/truxton-2-in-action.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" width="445" height="245" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/8a41226894194/truxton-2-in-action.445x245.jpg" alt="Truxton 2 in action"></a></div>
<p class="caption">Truxton 2 in action</p>
</aside>
<p>This 1992 blaster is considered to be something of a genre classic but was only ported to the FM Towns. That version – which wasn’t quite arcade perfect – now changes hands for well over a thousand dollars on the secondary market, often more, and the original arcade PCB is also very expensive these days.</p>
<figure class="picture strip"><a title="Tatsujin-Oh eBay" href="http://images.nintendolife.com/235398a8b85c0/tatsujin-oh-ebay.original.jpg"><img class="lazy" src="http://static.nintendolife.com/blank.gif" data-original="http://images.nintendolife.com/235398a8b85c0/tatsujin-oh-ebay.900x.jpg" alt="Tatsujin-Oh eBay"></a></figure>
<p>M2 hasn’t confirmed which platforms its Toaplan titles will be coming to, but given that it has chosen to support Switch with <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/games/nintendo-switch/esp_ra_de_psi">ESP.Ra.De Psi</a></strong>, there’s a good chance we’ll be playing these games on your favourite hybrid console – and when you consider you can run titles in TATE mode with the <a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/11/hardware_review_flip_grip_the_dream_peripheral_for_shmup_addicts">Flip Grip</a>, it could be the best platform to rediscover these classic titles on.</p>
<p>No release date has been confirmed, either, but M2 has revealed that it’s all-new shooter <strong><a href="http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/02/we_really_really_hope_m2s_new_shooter_comes_to_switch">Senjin</a></strong> will hit Japanese arcades later this year.</p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2020/04/...-consoles/