Taito Legends

[spman]

Taito Legends came out this week for PS2 and X-Box, and while it may not have the same number of well known A+ games as the Capcom or Midway sets, it does have quite a few memorable classics including Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Operation Wolf / Thunderbolt (Both sadly without lightgun support) Space Invaders, Qix, and a number of other obscure but awesome games which you'd probobly never play otherwise. This is a steal at 19.99, and easily one of my favorite comps so far. Stay away from Midway Arcade Treasures 3 BTW, it's awful.

[Guest JesusJuiced]

The New Zealand Story is the shit.

 

It was a definate must have for me.

[AndrewTS]

I've seen differing game lists, so could you post a full game list please?

 

Also, since you named it, I assume Bubble Bobble is playable right away--that correct? Just the one version of it, or others?

[DrVenkman PhD]

Any extras and such? I have fond memories of Operation Wolf from playing it at the big arcade on main street in Sauble Beach Ontario when I was a kid but I can't imagine a home version being anywhere near as cool. Bubble Bobble is cool though... I've spent a good chunk of money over the past 3 months with some pre-purchased spending coming up in November so I might just hold on to my money for now but I'm a mark for comps (that don't totally suck) so I'll probably get this in the future.

[Skywarp!]

If there's no Double Dragon then I'll pass. (Even though Gamefaqs says Tatio released the game, "Technos" was the maker. Not sure what this means but it could explain a lot.) Also, who made the arcade Ninja Gaiden from back in the day?

[spman]

Here's the complete game list

 

Battle Shark

Bubble Bobble

Colony 7

Continental Circus

Electric Yo-Yo

Elevator Action

Exzisus

Gladiator

Great Swordsman

Jungle Hunt

New Zealand Story

Ninja Kids

Operation Thunderbolt

Operation Wolf

Phoenix

Plotting

Plump Pop

Rainbow Islands

Rastan

Return of the Invaders

Space Gun

Space Invaders

Space Invaders part II

Super Qix

Thunderfox

Tokio

Tube It

Volfied

Zoo Keeper

 

There are some extras, a few video interviews with the game designers, and also th eoriginal advertising flyers for the games as well. Operation Wolf is only so-so with the controller, it's not really bad, but the arcade version with the gun was much more fun.

 

As for Double Dragon, whiule the original Arcade game was developed by Taito, I beleive the license for the series and it's games were eventually aquired by Technos, whose American assets are currently controlled by Atlus. Ninja Gaiden was always a Tecmo game, and is suspiciously absent from the recent, dissapointing, Tecmo arcade collection.

[Special K]

Man this looks great. I'll be picking it up tomorrow.

[AndrewTS]

As for Double Dragon, whiule the original Arcade game was developed by Taito, I beleive the license for the series and it's games were eventually aquired by Technos, whose American assets are currently controlled by Atlus. Ninja Gaiden was always a Tecmo game, and is suspiciously absent from the recent, dissapointing, Tecmo arcade collection.

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I think Million owns it but Atlus publishes for them--but anyway, that's close enough. Thank you very much for the game list.

[Guest The Showcase]

Elevator Action is the greatest game of all time. Period.

[Rendclaw]

Umm, no.

 

It was great, it still is a blast to pull it out and play in emulation, but the greatest game of all time? Hardly.

[razazteca]

Phoenix, Rainbow Islands, Rastan, are better than Elevator Action.

[Rendclaw]

Phoenix is about as legendary a game as they come.

 

When you think about it, 1980 was such a watershed for video games.... you had a LOT of arcade games coming out, and most of them were damned good.