Whoops! Popping up on Steam yesterday, Toaplan’s original arcade version of Zero Wing from 1989 has been ported and re-released to modern PCs by Bitwave Games. And that’s very cool.

Zero Fire, a portmanteau of collected titles Zero Wing (1989) and Hellfire (1989) represents Toaplan during the height of its glorious arcade tenure. Although released just four months apart ...

Zero Wing blasts onto PC for the first time ever! Toaplan’s classic 1989 arcade shooter is back and upgraded with an armada of features, like the brand-new beginner mode, arcade-accurate ...

The first PC release of these arcade games was announced today (August 18), with each also coming with a number of quality of life improvements alongside the basic ports themselves. Zero Wing is ...

Zero Wing, meanwhile, was very likely informed by the success enjoyed by the arcade icons that are R-Type and Gradius. With the horizontal scrolling and sometimes claustrophobic level design ...

You know Zero Wing as the source of a whole bunch of memes—“All your base are belong to us!” and so on—but the original arcade edition of the game didn’t have any of that. Which ...

Seize your foes and fire them back at their allies for devastating destruction in Toaplan’s legendary horizontal 1989 arcade shooter and source of the popular meme “All your base are belong to ...

Includes also new “Super Easy” and “Arcade Challenge” modes. Advertisement Zero Fire includes Zero Wing and Hellfire, the collection will also include the Toaplan-developed side-scrolling ...

Regardless of the poor english translation, Zero Wing will remain one of the best ... if you want a classic Shoot-em up for the Genesis, this arcade port will do just fine.

and the third in the Toaplan Arcade Garage series, Zero Fire combines Toaplan shoot 'em ups Hellfire and Zero Wing in one package. This collection included the arcade versions of each title ...