Product Information. Although published in North America by a different partner, Taito Legends 2 follows the original 2005 compilation, offering accurate emulations of more than three dozen games from the 'Golden' and 'Silver' ages of the arcade. Featured are primordial quarter-eaters such as Lunar Rescue, Balloon Bomber, and Alpine Ski; ageless favorites such as Front Line, Qix, and Legend of Kage; refined sequels such as Elevator Action Returns, Space Invaders DX, and Bust-A-Move Again; and a great number of noteworthy lesser-knowns (at least to American gamers), including Arabian Magic, Raimais, Bonze Adventure, Cameltry, Don Doko Don, The Fairyland Story, Insector X, Kuri Kinton, Puchi Carat, and several others. For anyone looking to pick up a solid compilation of games, this is it!Imagine my surprise when I put this CD-ROM in and found a completely different game. Over on the PlayStation side, I complained about the lack of presentation and goodies, but here we get 3D arcade cabinets and original sales fliers.

The game count holds steady at 39, but it's actually a mix of the same stuff as the console version (titles such as Lunar Rescue, a simplistic 1979 spacecraft game that has you avoiding asteroids and aliens while transporting people from the moon to the mother ship, and Puchi Carat, a 1997 game that has you bouncing a ball back and forth Pong-style while destroying colored jewels) to brand new additions (games such as Bubble Symphony, where you capture enemies in bubbles and pop them for points, and Bend it like Mr. Posh Spice).Bravo, Taito.So, yeah,if you haven't picked up on it yet, Taito Legends 2 is a arcade compilation that packs some of the companies biggest hits onto one disc. What all is there?

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Taito Legends is a compilation of 29 arcade games released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows. 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. Although they did not get official credit for it in the American versions, Sega published the North American and South American releases.

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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 PlayStation Portable exclusive Taito Legends Power-Up.

Games[edit]

While the Western Taito Legends consists of 29 arcade games, the Japanese Taito Memories includes only 25 arcade games per volume, omitting Jungle Hunt, Colony 7, The Electric Yo-Yo, Zoo Keeper and Tube It.^[1]

Between 2005 and 2007, in total four similar compilations had been released by Taito for the PlayStation 2 in its home market of Japan:^[2]

• Taito Memories Volume 1 (タイトーメモリーズ 上巻, Taitō Memorīzu Joukan)
• Taito Memories Volume 2 (タイトーメモリーズ 下巻, Taitō Memorīzu Gekan)
• Taito Memories II Volume 1 (タイトーメモリーズ2 上巻, Taitō Memorīzu 2 Joukan)
• Taito Memories II Volume 2 (タイトーメモリーズ2 下巻, Taitō Memorīzu 2 Gekan)

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).

The games that had to be altered due to licensing issues are Jungle Hunt and Rainbow Islands. Elements of Jungle Hunt had to be altered such as the design of the Tarzan like character and the signature Tarzan yell due to licensing issues with Edgar Rice Burroughs estate. Rainbow Islands had to alter its music for the re-release due to licensing.

Reception[edit]

Taito Legends received slightly positive reviews with a score of 74.06% for the Xbox version, 71.68% for the PlayStation 2 version, and 75.17% for the Windows version on GameRankings.^[3]IGN praised the collection for a superb presentation, as well as the large amount of bonus material, but criticized some titles in the collection as 'worthless filler'.^[4] Other criticisms are the lack of online leaderboards, the omission of Arkanoid and Chase H.Q., the lack of light gun support for Operation Wolf, Operation Thunderbolt, and Space Gun,^[5] the lack of control configuration, and for the controls being 'flipped', making it potentially uncomfortable and unnatural to many, less-adaptable players. Only the Windows version fixes the error regarding the collection's control scheme.

References[edit]

1. ^Taito Memories on taito.co.jp
2. ^Taito Memories on jap-sai.com
3. ^http://www.gamerankings.com/ps2/929578-taito-legends/articles.html
4. ^http://ps2.ign.com/articles/664/664916p2.html
5. ^http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/taitolegends/review.html

External links[edit]

• Xplosiv pages: PS2,
• Empire support pages: PC (xplosiv red), PC xplosiv, PS2 Xplosiv, Xbox Empire