Let's play, what games are on Toaplan Arcade Collection 2?

After the great news yesterday from the Evercade team, a couple of questions remained to be answered. The simple and relatively boring one, was "why the more modern, mature design for the Evercade EXP?" To which the answer is the team wanted something with less toy-like appeal, more for the broader gaming/gadget audience - which is fair enough. 

The second, and way more fun question, is what could be on Toaplan Arcade Collection 2? as mentioned in the trailer, and scheduled presumably for early 2023. I'm sure contracts have been signed and deals agreed with Tatsujin, who hold the rights to most Toaplan IPs, but its still fun to imagine what could be coming. 

With the Toaplan Arcade Collection 1 featuring Flying Shark, Alcon (Slap Fight), Tiger-Heli, Truxton and Zero Wing, Guardian, Snow Bros and puzzler Teki-Paki, there's still a long list of games from the Japanese marque waiting to be exploited.  

Obvious candidates include sequels Twin Cobra, the follow-up to Tiger-Heli, Truxton II and Snow Bros II (also notable as the last released Toaplan game). 

Beyond those, having spent the morning wading through YouTube, games that I would love to see included are: 

• Twin Hawk, the alternative timeline WWII vertical shmup.
• Vimana, a 1991 shooter that never got a console port. 
• Ghox, an Arkanoid-style game.
• Knuckle Bash got an arcade western release with Atari, but also no home ports. 
• Out-Zone, a very slick-looking on-foot vertical shooter. 

Have a look at the roster and see what you think, there's also a couple of console games Toaplan was involved in and several cancelled projects that it would be cool to think could finally see the light of day if they were near completion! 

To get in the spirit, and rather than add videos of every game, here's a stream of Toaplan's finest releases.