Taito Legends

by Empire Interactive

Product Features

• Space Invaders
• Jungle Hunt
• Bubble Bobble
• Operation - Wolf
• Rainbow Islands

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B8PWGS
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 15, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,840 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox

From the Manufacturer

Calling all arcade fans! Re-live fond memories of your early days in the arcade with 29 arcade classics. Your old favorites like Space Invaders, Operation Wolf, Bubble Bobble, and more look exactly as they did in the arcade, minus the smudge marks and glass glare. The must-have retro collection also comes with a wealth of bonus materials including interviews, original sales flyers, and arcade cabinet art.

Features:

• A phenomenal collection of 29 arcade favorites
• Explore the development of these gems with interviews
• Go back in time with the original sales flyers and Arcade Cabinet art

Games include:

• Space Invaders
• Jungle Hunt
• Bubble Bobble
• Operation Wolf
• Rainbow Islands
• Operation Thunderbolt
• Phoenix
• Space Invaders Part II
• Colony 7
• Electric YoYo
• Zoo Keeper
• Elevator Action
• Great Swordsman
• Gladiator
• Exzisus
• Plump Pop
• Rastan
• Super Qix
• New Zealand Story
• Battle Shark
• Continental Circus
• Plotting (aka Flipull)
• Volfied
• Ninja Kids
• Space Gun
• ThunderFox
• Tube It
• Return of the Invaders
• Tokio

Product Description

29 classic arcade-perfect titles. Games including Space Invaders Operation Wolf Bubble Bobble Jungle Hunt and Rainbow Island offer great recognition-value to consumers and the sheer number of games ensures tremendous value for money!Play a phenomenal 29 of your favorite arcade games now on your console!Explore the development of these gems with interviews development artwork and original Sales flyers and Arcade Cabinet art!Includes arcade classics: Space Invaders Plump PopJungle Hunt RastanBubble Bobble Super QixOperation Wolf New Zealand StoryRainbow Islands Battle SharkOperation Thunderbolt Continental CircusPhoenix Plotting(Flipull) Space Invaders Part IIVolfied Colony 7Ninja Kids Electric YoYoSpace Gun Zoo KeeperThunderFox Elevator ActionTube It Great SwordsmanReturn of the Invaders Gladiator TokioExzisusFormat: XBOX Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: T - Teen UPC: 010086640663 Manufacturer No: 64066

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't run on 360, October 26, 2010

By 

Eric Ruck "NearChaos" (Ellicott City, MD USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Taito Legends (Video Game)

The fact that is doesn't run on a 360 is the big takeaway I wanted to impress on anyone reading reviews. I knew this might be a problem when I bought the game, but I didn't see this information anywhere for sure, and it was cheap enough to find out by trial.

I do have an original XBox, on the crummy TV in the basement, and the game plays fine on this. I bought it primarily for certain retro games which I've played before, and these are certainly decent renditions.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A couple of good games, with a lot of filler ..., November 13, 2005

By 

WorknMan "worknman" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Taito Legends (Video Game)

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. This works in favor of Taito Legends, except for Phoenix - the sound isn't even CLOSE to being accurate. I think the sound in Jungle Hunt and Gladiator may be a little off as well. But other than that, I didn't notice any other flaws in the games I've played before. Based on the fact that this is essentially a shrink-wrapped MAME, the emulation here is mostly spot-on.

The biggest problem with this collection is that there are a couple of really good games, and the rest are basically crap. 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. 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.

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. 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).

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the better classic compilations, October 31, 2006

By 

Robert P. Inverarity (Silicon Valley, California, United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Taito Legends (Video Game)

Taito Legends is a hard compilation to judge. 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. 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. However, the games span many genres (single-screen and scrolling shooters, adventure, puzzle, action) and the really good games are, well, really good.

Buy this compilation for:
* Space Invaders
* Jungle Hunt
* Bubble Bobble
* Rainbow Islands
* Phoenix
* Colony 7
* Zoo Keeper
* Elevator Action
* Plump Pop
* Rastan
* Super Qix
* New Zealand Story
* Plotting (aka Flipull)
* Tube It

The presentation is great. A lot of attention went towards this package, and it shows.

While there are glaring omissions (Japan and Europe got two compilations, with a total of around fifty games overall), it's a solid compilation. In any case, for the price, it's a steal.

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