Taito Legends
Taito Legends collects 36 classic arcade titles, from a company that dominated in the 80s and early 90s. Not only will you have a complete arcade on your Xbox, but you'll get to explore their development -- watch interviews, study development artwork and even sales flyers&arcade cabinet art! The classics include: Operation Thunderbolt Phoenix Space Invaders II Colony 7 Electric Yoyo Zoo Keeper Elevator Action Great Swordsman Sea Fighter Poseidon Gladiator Scramble Formation Exzisus Plump Pop Rastan Super Qix New Zealand Battle Shark Continental Circus Plotting (aka Flipull) Volfied Aqua Jack Ninja Kids Space Gun Thunderfox Double Axle Dungeon Magic Rayforce Tube It Bubble Symphony Darius Gaiden Pop n Pop
Taito Legends Accessories
 Midway Arcade Treasures
Capcom Classics Collection
Midway Arcade Treasures 2
Atari Anthology
Tecmo Classic Arcade
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary
Namco Museum
Midway Arcade Treasures 3
Taito Legends 2
Capcom Classics Collection Volume 2
Taito Legends Reviews
* Super Qix. It like Midway Arcade Treasures 1 mixes early, mid, and late 80s games, and it's just odd to have Electric Yo Yo on the same disc as Operation Wolf. * Tube It. * Phoenix. Buy this compilation for:. A lot of attention went towards this package, and it shows.
* Elevator Action. * Bubble Bobble. * Zoo Keeper. In any case, for the price, it's a steal. * Jungle Hunt.
The presentation is great. * Plump Pop. However, the games span many genres (single-screen and scrolling shooters, adventure, puzzle, action) and the really good games are, well, really good. There is, admittedly, a lot of filler the old lightgun games don't do well without a lightgun, the scrolling shooters are mostly forgettable, and three Space Invaders games might be too many for one compilation. * Rainbow Islands. * Rastan. * Space Invaders. While there are glaring omissions (Japan and Europe got two compilations, with a total of around fifty games overall), it's a solid compilation.
Taito Legends is a hard compilation to judge. * Plotting (aka Flipull). * New Zealand Story. * Colony 7.
Good game. This is a collection of 1980s arcade games, 29 total. Phoenix: Another shooter similar to Space Invaders. You shoot and prick away at a UFO's bottom orange belly. The Ninja Kids: A horizontal brawler similar to Streets of Rage and Final Fight. Most games are horrible and unpopular in its arcade days. Not nearly as good as Galaga and Galaxian. You can move your shield up and down fast to create a wide energy barrier.
Good game. However this game is made by Taito AND Sega. This collection is horrible like Sega Classics Collection. Cheesy game. The few decent games:. 2 games in this collection are based on moving a dot around a covered picture, you draw and reveal the picture.
Space Invaders, Spade Invaders Part 2: A true original shooter. One is pretty decent. Average game. Overall don't buy this game. Bubble Bobble: You shoot trapping bubbles at enemies and pop them. Only one enemy at a time. Too bad its not the one with naked girls. Average game.
Few other games are FPS on rail with paper thin enemies popping out in front and projectiles flying toward you. Good game. Gladiator: A horizontal brawler.
This collection is much worse than Capcom Classics Collection. Rastan: A horizontal brawler with sword, similar to Castlevania and Ghost 'n' Goblins. The animation is pretty violent and bloody.
Similar to Karateka. 4 selectable players. Only 5 to 7 decent games total out of 29.
I recommend Capcom Classics Collection, Midway Arcade Treasures 1, then Namco 50th Anniversary Collection.
If you buy this game, buy it for the games you recognize, because the ones you don't recognize will probably do nothing for you. For me, having an arcade-perfect version of Bubble Bobble to play on my Toshiba HDTV was worth the price of the package, but I wish they had put 5-6 strong titles on here instead of the 20+ medicore titles we ended up with. Based on the fact that this is essentially a shrink-wrapped MAME, the emulation here is mostly spot-on. This works in favor of Taito Legends, except for Phoenix - the sound isn't even CLOSE to being accurate.
Oh, and though I can't confirm this yet, if you have the option of picking up the Xbox or the PS2 version, I'd recommend the Xbox version, because the PS2 supposedly has (more) issues with inaccurate sound (if this matters to you). There weren't any games I hadn't played before that I spent more than 5 minutes with here, except for Space Gun, which is average at best. This is basically a commercial derivative of the MAME arcade emulator (In fact, if you have the PC version of this game, there are rom images on the disc that you can drop straight into MAME). This means that all the games will play about the same as they do in MAME.
But other than that, I didn't notice any other flaws in the games I've played before. The biggest problem with this collection is that there are a couple of really good games, and the rest are basically crap. I think the sound in Jungle Hunt and Gladiator may be a little off as well.
(1988). 17.Plump pop. 7.Ecxisus. 5.Electric yo-yo. 23.Space invaders 2. 8.Gladiator.
3.Colony 7. Here is a list of games on the disc. Some of these games fall under the following for me they are either obscure and I never played them til today or I barely remembered them and some just haven't held up well at all. 11.New Zealand story great side scrolling platformer (check out the little chick havin a quick drag of a smoke) in the intro. 1.Double Dragon (1987). 6.Elevator action has NOT aged well and looks like it came from the Commodore 64 era.
I sure hope there is a volume 2. 2.Bubble-bobble great game. 16.Plotting. 14,Operation Wolf I remember pumping plenty of quarters into this one back in the day. 18.Rainbow islands.
10.Jungle Hunt. These games span the late 70's 80's and early 90's. 15.Phoenix. 2.Chase H.Q. 19.Rastin. I rented this game and while it has a hefty number of games (29) it leaves a LOT to be desired. 1,Battle shark a so-so shooter. 20.Return of the invaders.
Why were these 2 not included they should have gotten rid of 2 of the other games and I would've bumped up my rating had these been included. 4.Continental Circus great racing game from my youth. For me there are at least 2 very glaring obmissions they are. Bottom line this could've and should've been a lot better. 28.Volfied. 25.Thunder fox.
22.Space invaders Released back in the year I was born still quite addictive for me. I strongly recommend renting this first as far as I can see there are only 4 or 5 titles worth playing. 27.Tube it.
29.Zoo Keeper. 13.Operation Thunderbolt sequel to Operation Wolf while not as good as OW its a very good shooter. 12.Ninja kids average game.
26.Tokio. 24.Super Qix. 21.Space gun.
9.Great swordsman.
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