Taito Legends

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Taito Legends

Developer(s) Taito Corporation
Empire Interactive
Atomic Planet Entertainment

Publisher(s) Empire Interactive (Europe/Americas)
Sega (Americas)

Platform(s) PS2, Xbox, Windows

Release date(s)

October 14, 2005

October 25, 2005

Genre(s) Compilation

Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer

Rating(s) ESRB: Teen
PEGI: 7+

Media CD-ROM, DVD-ROM (Xbox)

Taito Legends is a compilation of 29 arcade games released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC in October of 2005. The games were originally developed by Taito Corporation. The European release was published by Empire Interactive, who had licensed the games from Taito and developed the compilation. The North American and South American releases were published by Sega, even though it is not mentioned anywhere in the actual CD-ROM. Similar compilations had been released earlier by Taito in its home market of Japan, under the names of Taito Memories Vol. 1 and Taito Memories Vol. 2.

The games on this compilation are emulations of their respective arcade originals; however, the software lacks light gun support for Operation Wolf, Operation Thunderbolt, and Space Gun. These games place a gun cursor on the screen, which the player can move around with the analog stick (console versions), or mouse (PC version).

Extra features include interviews with some of the game designers, original sales flyers, and arcade cabinet art.

Two follow-up compilations were issued; Taito Legends 2 for the playstation 2, Xbox and PC and the PSP exclusive Taito Legends Power Up.

1 Games 2 Criticism 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Games

Taito Legends consists of the following 29 arcade games:

Space Invaders Space Invaders Part II (initially released as Deluxe Space Invaders in the U.S.) Bubble Bobble Elevator Action Rastan (aka Rastan Saga in Japan) New Zealand Story Plotting (aka Flipull)

(Note: The seven games listed above have also appeared on the Japanese Taito Memories collections. The games listed below were previously exclusive to this collection, but with the exception of Jungle Hunt, Colony 7, Electric YoYo, Zoo Keeper, Tube It, and Tokio, are now featured in the Japanese Taito Memories 2 collections.^[1])

Jungle Hunt Operation Wolf (Note: lacks light gun support) Operation Thunderbolt (Note: lacks light gun support) Rainbow Islands Phoenix (originally designed by Amstar and released by Centuri in the U.S.) Colony 7 Electric YoYo Zoo Keeper Great Swordsman Gladiator (edited version of Ougon no Shiro [Golden Castle]) Exzisus Plump Pop Super Qix Battle Shark Continental Circus Volfied Ninja Kids Space Gun (Note: lacks light gun support) ThunderFox Tube It (known as Cachat in Japan) Return of the Invaders Tokio (Scramble Formation in Japan)

[edit] Criticism

Some individuals have criticized the fact that not only is there no way to configure the control options, the controls set for all the games have X (A on the XBox) as the "attack" button, while square or circle (X or B on the XBox) are the "jump" button. This is the opposite of the layout for most control setups based on the Super Nintendo button layout, so in essence the controls are essentially flipped, making it largely uncomfortable and unnatural to most players.

This is remedied in Taito Legends 2, as well as the PSP collection Taito Legends Power Up. Unfortunately, only the Windows version of Taito Legends fixes this error.