Overview
- Also Known As
- Toaplan Arcade Garage Vol. 1, Ultimate Tiger Heli
- Number of Players
- 2
- Genre
- Release Date
Nintendo Switch
28th Oct 2021
- Series
Reviews
Review Toaplan Arcade Garage - Two Historic Shmups Archived By Arcade Port Masters M2
Easy, tiger
In recent years fans of the 2D shooter form have had to adjust their expectation of what a port can be, largely thanks to the sublime M2 ShotTriggers series. Indeed, we’ve been rather spoiled by that particular run of games. A long-established convention across gaming’s history states that console ports never quite meet the quality...
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Toaplan Arcade Garage: Kyukyoku Tiger-Heli News
News M2's 'Kyukyoku Tiger-Heli Collection' For Switch Has Been Rated By The ESRB
Update: Limited Run confirms western release
Update [Thu 13th Jul, 2023 00:25 BST]: Limited Run Games has now confirmed a western physical release of Kyukyoku Tiger-Heli Collection for the Nintendo Switch. More details will be shared soon. Original article [Sun 9th Jul, 2023 04:45 BST]: Back in October 2021, the emulation specialist M2...
News M2 Is Bringing Toaplan's 'Tiger-Heli' And 'Ultimate Tiger' To Nintendo Switch This October
Update: Pre-order now live
Emulation expert M2 has just confirmed that it is bringing Toaplan's 'Ultimate Tiger' series to the Switch later this year as part of its M2 Shot Triggers range. Ultimate Tiger-Heli – which is getting a physical release – will include the original 1985 Tiger-Heli and its 1987 sequel Twin Cobra (AKA Kyukyoku Tiger)...
News M2 Is Bringing Toaplan's Back Catalogue To Modern Consoles
Arcade lovers, rejoice!
Tiger Heli. Zero Wing. Hellfire. Truxton. Slap Fight. Fire Shark. If those names just sound like the ramblings of a deranged madman, then you'll probably want to navigate away from this page as soon as possible, but if at least one of them has you grinning with nostalgic glee, then the next bit of news is going to make your...
About The Game
Ultimate Tiger-Heli includes the original 1985 Tiger-Heli and its 1987 sequel Twin Cobra (AKA Kyukyoku Tiger).
The package version also includes downloadable content, which includes 13 different titles (many of which are home variants of the two games), the largest number in the history of M2 Shot Triggers.
Unrelated arcade titles like Get Star and Guardian are also included.
Full list of on-cart + DLC Titles:
- Get Star (arcade)
- Guardian (western arcade version of Get Star)
- Kyukyoku Tiger (Famicom)
- Kyukyoku Tiger (PC Engine)
- Kyukyoku Tiger (Mega Drive)
- Twin Cobra (NES)
- Twin Cobra (Genesis)
- Tiger-Heli (Famicom)
- Tiger-Heli (NES)
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What’s this thing? A game thing?
@BlubberWhale An emulation of the arcade and console versions of Twin Cobra and Tiger-Heli.
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