Taito Legends 2

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Taito Legends 2 is the sequel to Taito Legends and is a follow-up collection of 39 (or 43, see below) Taito arcade games for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC.

In Europe and Australia, published by Empire Interactive, all three versions were released in March 2006. In the United States, published by Destineer, it was released for the PlayStation 2 on May 16, 2007 and for PC on July 28, 2007, with the Xbox version never being released in North America. However, the European PAL-based Xbox version works on the North American NTSC-based Xbox systems, without any modifications^{[citation needed]}.

Bonus content includes hints, cheats and tips for some games, original game flyers, and one interview with Taito. Somewhat controversially, eight of the 43 games- Balloon Bomber, Bubble Symphony, Cadash, Rayforce, Raystorm, G Darius, Pop 'n Pop and Syvalion- were split across the platforms due to porting issues^[1], requiring players to buy more than one version to get every game available.

Contents 1 Games 1.1 All platforms 1.2 PS2 exclusives 1.3 Xbox/PC exclusives 2 Notes 3 External links

[edit] Games

Taito Legends 2 consists of the following 43 arcade games, split across Xbox/PC and PS2 (the Xbox/PC and PS2 versions each have four exclusive games, for a total of 39 games on each):

[edit] All platforms

• Alpine Ski
• Arabian Magic
• Bonze Adventure (Jigoku Meguri in Japan)
• Cameltry
• Chack'n Pop
• Cleopatra Fortune
• Crazy Balloon
• Darius Gaiden
• Don Doko Don
• Dungeon Magic (Light Bringer in Japan)
• Elevator Action Returns (Elevator Action II in US)
• The Fairyland Story
• Football Champ (Hat Trick Hero in Japan)
• Front Line
• Gekirindan
• Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer
• Growl (Runark in Japan)
• Gun Frontier (arcade game)
• Insector X
• KiKi KaiKai
• Kuri Kinton
• Legend of Kage
• Liquid Kids (Mizubaku Adventure in Japan)
• Lunar Rescue
• Metal Black (video game) (Gun Frontier 2)
• Nastar Warrior (Rastan Saga 2 in Japan, Nastar in other countries)
• Puchi Carat
• Puzzle Bobble 2 (Bust-a-Move Again in the North America PS2 version)
• Qix
• Raimais
• Space Invaders 95 (Akkan-vaders in Japan)
• Space Invaders DX
• Super Space Invaders 91 (Majestic Twelve: The Space Invaders Part IV in Japan)
• Violence Fight
• Wild Western

[edit] PS2 exclusives

• Balloon Bomber
• G-Darius
• RayStorm
• Syvalion

[edit] Xbox/PC exclusives

• Bubble Symphony (Bubble Bobble 2 in other countries)
• Cadash
• Pop'n Pop
• RayForce (Gunlock in other countries)

In any event, all of the games seen here were taken directly from the Japanese Taito Memories collections. The only exceptions were Bubble Symphony, Pop 'n Pop, and Rayforce; Bubble Symphony and Rayforce now appear on the Japanese Taito Memories 2 collections ^[2]; Pop 'n Pop still has yet to appear. In the North America PS2 version Puzzle Bobble 2 is replaced with Bust-a-Move Again. The only games not included on this collection are the color version of Space Invaders (not to be confused with "Space Invaders Part II"), Pu-Li-Ru-La, and a baseball game called "Aa Eikou no Koshien", having been replaced by the three "exclusive" games previously mentioned.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ An explanation for certain games being exclusive to the PS2 or Xbox/PC
2. ^ Taito web site (in Japanese)

[edit] External links

• Official site