is a Japanese

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 video game company that is famous for developing arcade shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em up is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what...

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Following Toaplan

Toaplan

, sometimes written as Toa Plan, was a video game developer from Japan. They were responsible for the creation of a wide array of relatively famous scrolling shooters and arcade games, yet the company declared bankruptcy in 1994.-Games developed :...

's bankruptcy, some of the former staff went to Takumi. Among Toaplan's offshoots, only Takumi has developed any sequels to former Toaplan games.

Takumi is one of the splinter companies formed when the company Toaplan

Toaplan

, sometimes written as Toa Plan, was a video game developer from Japan. They were responsible for the creation of a wide array of relatively famous scrolling shooters and arcade games, yet the company declared bankruptcy in 1994.-Games developed :...

 disbanded in 1994, the others being Cave

Cave (company)

Cave Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game company, known primarily for its manic shoot 'em ups. Cave remains one of the most active makers of arcade shoot-'em-ups in the Japanese market...

, 8ing/Raizing

8ing/Raizing

Eighting Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game company mainly known for its shoot 'em ups and its fighting games....

, and Gazelle

Gazelle (software company)

Gazelle was an arcade game developer founded by former Toaplan employees after the bankruptcy of the latter company in 1994.They developed only two games: Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, a beat 'em up, 1995 and Air Gallet, an extremely difficult "manic" vertically scrolling shoot 'em up, 1996. Both...

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The company had also produced soundtrack albums.

Video games

• Twin Cobra II
  Twin Cobra II
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  - 1996
• Kyuukyouku Tiger II PLUS - 1997
• Giga Wing
  Giga Wing
  Giga Wing is a 1999 vertically scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Takumi and published by Capcom on their CPS-2 arcade system board and ported later that year to the Dreamcast console. The arcade version is notable for using a horizontally aligned monitor Giga Wing is a 1999 vertically...
  
  - 1999
• Mars Matrix - 2000
• Giga Wing 2
  Giga Wing 2
  Giga Wing 2 is a 2000 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Takumi and published by Capcom on Sega's NAOMI arcade system board and later ported in 2001 to the Dreamcast console. The arcade version is notable both for its excessive scores , and for using a horizontally aligned monitor...
  
  - 2000
• Night Raid - 2002
• Giga Wing Generations
  Giga Wing Generations
  is a 2004 vertically scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Takumi and published by Taito on their Taito Type X arcade system board. It was ported to the PlayStation 2 console in 2005.-Overview:...
  
  - 2004
• Kurukuru Fever
• Don chan puzzle hanabi de do-n!
• Otenki kororin
• Mesaze!! Tsuri master
• Elemental Monster
• Milon no hoshizora shabon

Soundtracks

• Kyuukyouku Tiger II Official soundtrack
• Giga Wing Official soundtrack
• Mars Matrix/Giga Wing 2 Official soundtrack
• Night Raid Official soundtrack
• BLAST! SHOOTING GAME SOUND OMNIBUS VOL.1