Cave is a Japanese video game company, known in the West primarily for its incredibly manic shoot-'em-ups. Cave remains one of the most active makers of arcade shoot-'em-ups in the Japanese market. The company was formed primarily from the remains of Toaplan, and several of their early games are considered to be spiritual successors to prior Toaplan works, in particular Batsugun. A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... A screenshot from the bullet hell game Mushihimesama. ... Scrolling shooters are a type of video game, a subgenre of the shooter or shooting game. ... Toaplan was a video game developer from Japan. ... Monitor Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster, standard resolution (240 x 320) Notes None Batsugun is a vertically scrolling shooting em up or shmup hailing from the now deceased Japanese game developer Toaplan, it was their final release. ...

They are also known for its Engrish warning screen after turning on the game ("Violator and subject to severe penalties and will be prosecutedt to the full extent of the jam"). An example of Engrish noted in Tokyo in the year 2000 Engrish is a slang term which, in its purest form, refers to poor-quality attempts by Japanese writers to create English words and phrases; whether in mistranslation of an original Japanese language text, or in an attempt to create...

List of Cave Releases:

• DonPachi (1995) - Arcade, with ports for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation
• DoDonPachi (1997) - Arcade, with ports for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation
• ESP Ra De (pronounced espraid) (1998) - Arcade
• Dangun Feveron (1998) - Arcade
• Uo Poko (1998) - Arcade
• Steep Slope Sliders - Arcade, with a port released for the Sega Saturn
• Guwange (1999) - Arcade
• Progear no Arashi (2001) - Arcade (and their only side-scrolling shmup)
• Bee Storm (a.k.a Dodonpachi II) (2001) - Arcade, developed by International Games System
• DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou (2002) - Arcade, with a port released for the PlayStation 2
• Ketsui - Kizuna Jigoku Tachi (2002) - Arcade
• ESP Galuda (2003) - Arcade, with a port released for the PlayStation 2
• Mushihime Sama (2004) - Arcade, with a port released for the PlayStation 2
• Ibara (2005) - Arcade

The Sega Saturn (Japanese: セガサターン, Sega Saturn), a video game console of the 32-bit era, was released on November 22, 1994, in Japan and May 1995 in the United States; 170,000 machines were sold the first day of the Japanese launch. ... The PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション) is a video game console of the 32-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid 1990s. ... Title screen of DoDonPachi DoDonPachi (怒首領蜂 also ドドンパチ) is a manic shooter (the definition of it, in fact) developed by Atlus and Cave. ... The Sega Saturn (Japanese: セガサターン, Sega Saturn), a video game console of the 32-bit era, was released on November 22, 1994, in Japan and May 1995 in the United States; 170,000 machines were sold the first day of the Japanese launch. ... The PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション) is a video game console of the 32-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid 1990s. ... Steep Slope Sliders is a console game made for the Sega Saturn, published in 1998. ... The Sega Saturn (Japanese: セガサターン, Sega Saturn), a video game console of the 32-bit era, was released on November 22, 1994, in Japan and May 1995 in the United States; 170,000 machines were sold the first day of the Japanese launch. ... Guwange is an arcade game released by Cave in 1999. ... Progear no Arashi (or simply Progear outside of Japan) is an arcade video game developed by Cave and published by Capcom on the CPS-2 arcade system board in January, 2001. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, after the PlayStation. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, after the PlayStation. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, after the PlayStation. ...

External Links

• Cave's List of Arcade Games
• The Cave of Shooting