Toaplan Arcade Collection 4 heads to Evercade

 Toaplan is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for Evercade this winter, with Collection 3 coming November, and Toaplan Arcade 4 just announced for December. Offering a solid mix of shooting, fighting and platforming, the latest batch from the last few years of the Japanese coin-op master's operation features:

• Snow Bros. 2: With New Elves 
• Dogyuun
• Grind Stormer
• Knuckle Bash
• Pipi and Bibi's 
• Sky Shark (console port of Flying Shark) 

With the delayed Tomb Raider-badged Evercade hardware on the way, plus the new table top units, there should be plenty of new owners looking for fresh carts to slap into whatever model they own Those and the existing army of Evercade retro console and arcade with shelves full of physical releases should make it another good festive season for the retro brand.  

Upping the pace slightly, you can already pre-order Toaplan Arcade Collection 4 from most places including Amazon with a release date listed as the 12th December. 

While Toaplan Collection 1 is probably the highlight of this series, this smallish list of games should still deliver plenty of punch, even though the brand went bust in the mid-90s after Snow Bros 2 arrived in arcades. Guessing that limits the chances of a Toaplan 5.