Taito Legends

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Taito Legends

Developer(s)	Taito Corporation Empire Interactive
Publisher(s)	Empire Interactive (Europe) Xplosiv (Europe) Sega (Americas)
Release date(s)	October 14, 2005 (Europe) October 25, 2005 (U.S.)
Genre(s)	Compilation
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen PEGI: 7+
Platform(s)	PS2, Xbox, Windows
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 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. 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.

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

A follow-up compilation entitled Taito Legends 2 was later released.

[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 outside the U.S.)
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 are exclusive to this collection)