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	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.

[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./Europe)
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])