Taito Legends

by Sega

Product Features

• There is a patch for current systems. This WILL work on windows XP SP2.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BD9674
• Item Weight: 12.3 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,107 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC

29 Games That Defined a GenerationProduct InformationCalling all arcade fans! Re-live fond memories of your early days in the arcadewith 29 arcade classics. Your old favorites like Space Invaders Operation WolfBubble Bobble and more look exactly as they did in the arcade minus the smudgemarks and glass glare. The must-have retro collection also comes with a wealthof bonus materials including interviews original sales flyers and arcadecabinet art.Games Included Battle Shark Bubble bobble Colony 7 Continental Circus Electric Yo-Yo Elevator Action Exzisus Gladiator Great Swordsman Jungle Hunt New Zealand Story The Ninja Kids Operation Thunderbolt Operation Wolf Phoenix Plotting Plump Pop Rainbow Islands Rastan Return of the Invaders Space Gun Space Invaders Space Invaders Part 2 Super Qix Thunderfox Tokio Tube It Volfield Zoo KeeperWindows Requirements      Windows 98 Me 2000 XP 1 GHz processor 128 MB of RAM 500 MB free Hard Disk space 32 MB DirectX 9 compatible Video Card DirectX compatible Sound Card DirectX 9.0 or higher 4X CD-ROM drive

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Patch works, July 12, 2006

By 

Joel Newberry (Blacksburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Taito Legends (CD-ROM)

I bought this game just so I could play Gladiator again...it was everything I remembered it to be. As far as I can tell all the games are exact emulations of the arcade originals, so if you're the sentimental type you'll definitely take a trip back in time.

I also had the problem of it not working on Windows XP, so I searched for the patch that another reviewer mentioned and found it very easily. After installing the patch everythign worked just great. I downloaded it [...]Alright, back to Gladiator...

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Taito Legends, January 6, 2006

By 

Richard A. Dengel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Taito Legends (CD-ROM)

I could never get this game to run. I have a 1 year old computer running Window XP SP2. The game installs ok, but when I try to run it, the game quits. I've tried everything, even calling SEGA's Customer support for this product which is NON_EXISTENT! I couldn't find a way to even E-Mail the company with a question! What a WASTE of 20- bucks. BUY SOMETHING ELSE! I'm only giving it one star because I have to. The game is worthless.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great if you love the titles!, July 24, 2008

By 

LanaFire (NY) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Taito Legends (CD-ROM)

No problem working on my Vista Dell 2.4 w/1 meg RAM. I also had no problems at all using a 20 dollar Logitech dual action controller.

It has basic easy menu letting you scroll through the titles on the bottom & seeing their look as arcade stand alone cabinet. It has old flyer art & other minor video/audio options. To change controller buttons or keys on keyboard, you have to do it separately for every game, though once you do the settings it remembers it for the future for the time you have the cd game loaded. The first person shooter games has you use the mouse for aiming, though the controller stick works too. The game requires the CD for every use. You start every game using F3 (coin) & F1 (1p) & F2 (2p) like other emulators which means you can keep continuing.

Games include:

* Battle Shark - large graphics underwater shooter that feels very slow, at least the first level & I did not like it personally.

* Bubble Bobble -- NES well-loved classic game of capturing enemies w/bubbles & killing them by jumping w/simple non-moving screens for each level. Personal favorite & 2p simultaneous

* Colony 7 - space shooter w/almost no graphics, pre-defender feel. Just a crosshair w/very fast moving tiny alien ships attacking tiny city at bottom.

* Continental Circus - post Atari 2600 Pole Position driving game, better graphics w/pit stops & damage meter.

* Electric YoYo - A touch all the boxes to make them disappear game while avoiding enemies, but you move using yoyo physics in a way, fast up/down or left/right.

* Elevator Action - well-known classic, vertical slow-scrolling shooter in a building, fun. (popular game)

* Exzisus - side scrolling adventure guy flying in spacesuit/spaceship shooter in space who shoots both across & down at the same time, still hard.

* Gladiator - large character side scrolling w/sword use high, med & low

* Great Swordsman - fencing in tournament style w/sword use high, med & low

* Jungle Hunt - like original Atari 2600 version w/larger characters & better graphics

* New Zealand Story - a simple platform using a baby chick.

* Ninja Kids - VERY FUNNY scrolling adventure w/several kids to choose to be (only 1 at a time)w/different weapons like TMNT. You save world from Satan & his floating worshipers in robes (some in pink). There are very round fat guy who does somersaults & squish you, friend turns to a werewolf & pack of wolfs run across the screen too. If you stay in the street to long, you are hit by a car. If you're hit by a worshiper or by a terrorists' molotov cocktail, you turn black except for blinking eyes. On the second level, you climb the walls w/worshipers in every window hurling items at you & tarantulas the size of humans coming at you. When you reach the top, big body builder guys pose & smile before they attack you & have a shocked expression when hit. At another area, hunchback zombies fall from the sky constantly & also looks like the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street in a three piece suit. That's only the first 3 levels & 2p simultaneous.

* Operation Thunderbolt - 1st person shooter on rails that uses mouse or stick to aim against terrorists. The enemies on foot, helicopters & tanks are VERY large & come straight at you only. Only enemies & few dogs & 2p simultaneous.

* Operation Wolf - Same thing as above, but a side scroller, with smaller enemies, more of them & more spread out. Also a lot more innocents like nurses carrying patients, little boys, blonds in bikinis, animals & village woman running. There are only 6 missions.

* Phoenix - Just like the original Atari 2600 game but better graphics. Space shooter with enemies that move fast like flying birds & ufo's.

* Plotting - a puzzle game where you throw blocks w/stamped shapes on it to match to remove them. You lose a life when there is no more of the shape that you are holding. 2 player simultaneous choice has you battle but mostly against the clock.

* Plump Pop - A cross between Atari 2600 Circus & Breakout/Arkanoid game & 2p simultaneous.

* Rainbow Islands - sort of a Bubble Bobble twist where you shoot small rainbows to kill enemies & walk on to get higher to goal, NOT 2p simultaneous.

* Rastan - A barbarian style side scroller adventure & 2p simultaneous.

* Return of the Invaders - Much better graphics but same as the original Invaders. One enemy can shoot 4x faster then you can move.

* Space Gun - exactly like the Aliens movie enemies. First person shooter w/large characters, save humans kill several types of aliens in futuristic space station & 2p simultaneous.

* Space Invaders - in all it's slow as soup pace & B&W glory!

* Space Invaders Part II - oohhh, 5 colors now & it fires faster then someone can walk!

* Super Qix - run lines to draw boxes to uncover the photo. You have gremlins moving fast & skulls along the edges to always get you so you are never safe.

* ThunderFox - side scrolling action where your kicks can kill 5 guys in a row as you sail in air & 2p simultaneous.

* Tokio - a Japanese bi-plane shooter like 1941 but the graphics are bad in that it's hard to distinguish where the bullets are from the land/buildings & ground enemies.

* Tube It - puzzle game that's like Tetris w/plumbing, requires a lot of thought & has 2p simultaneous.

* Zoo Keeper - Atari 2600 graphics where you run in circles to keep escaped animals penned & then the next screen you jump & glide up like original Mario Bros. or Donkey kong to jump up platforms to save the girl while little monkey throws coconuts.

* Volfied - like Super Qix, but you are safe on the sides & it has 1 large creature (who can fire as well) & several small ones to get you. Power ups to box around help, so it's almost an arcade w/strategy feel.

If you need more info, try youtube, some upload game plays or many other sites. whether you like this products is a matter of opinion of the indivdual games.

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