Originally published at: Toaplan's Truxton Is Back After 38 Years, Run by the Man Who Made the Original | POCG
If you have spent any time in the shoot ’em up world, the name Truxton means something. It was Toaplan’s 1988 arcade shooter, known in Japan as Tatsujin, one of the games that helped write the rulebook for the whole genre. It has been 38 years since a new one. That streak ends on July…