Taito Legends

Although they did not get official credit for it in the American versions, Sega published the North American and South American releases. 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.

• Title — Taito Legends • Developer — Empire Interactive • Platforms — * PlayStation 2 • Windows • Xbox • Genre — Various • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

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. Titles included in the Western and Japanese releases of the collection • Title — Arcade release — Taito Memories — Alternative title • Space Invaders — 1978 • Space Invaders Part II — 1979 — Deluxe Space Invaders (USA) • Phoenix — 1980 • Colony 7 — 1981 • The Electric Yo-Yo — 1982 • Jungle Hunt — 1982 — Jungle King (original) and Pirate Pete (official clone) • Zoo Keeper — 1982 • Elevator Action — 1983 • Great Swordsman — 1984 • Return of the Invaders — 1985 • Bubble Bobble — 1986 • Gladiator — 1986 — Ougon no Shiro (Japan) • Tokio — 1986 — Scramble Formation (Japan) • Exzisus — 1987 • Operation Wolf — 1987 • Plump Pop — 1987 • Rastan — 1987 — Rastan Saga (Japan, Europe) • Rainbow Islands — 1987 • Super Qix — 1987 • Operation Thunderbolt — 1988 • The NewZealand Story — 1988 • Battle Shark — 1989 • Continental Circus — 1989 • Plotting — 1989 — Flipull (Japan) • Volfied — 1989 • The Ninja Kids — 1990 • Space Gun — 1990 • Thunder Fox — 1990 • Tube It — 1993 — Cachat (Japan) Between 2005 and 2007, in total four similar compilations had been released by Taito for the PlayStation 2 in its home market of Japan: • Taito Memories Volume 1 • Taito Memories Volume 2 • Taito Memories II Volume 1 • Taito Memories II Volume 2 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 Tarzanesque 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.