Taito Memories

Taito Memories
Genre(s)	Various
Developer(s)	Taito
Publisher(s)	Taito
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable
First release	Taito Memories Jōkan July 28, 2005
Latest release	Taito Memories II Gekan March 29, 2007

Taito Memories^[a] is a series of video game compilations published by Taito in Japan. A total of five collections were released from 2005 to 2007 — four on the PlayStation 2, and one on the PlayStation Portable. The PlayStation 2 entries each have twenty-five titles, while the PlayStation Portable game has sixteen. The collections contain arcade games developed by Taito throughout the 1980s and 1990s. A similar series of collections, Taito Legends, was released outside Japan in North America and Europe, which retained many of the games included in the Taito Memories collections. The first two compilations sold a total of 145,616 copies.^{[n 1]}

Games

Taito Memories Jōkan

The first entry, Taito Memories Jōkan, was released on July 28, 2005.^[3] It would be re-released under two different budget labels - first under the Taito BEST label on July 7, 2006, and the second under Eternal Hits on June 28, 2007. Among the included titles, KiKi KaiKai, Bubble Bobble, Syvalion, Cameltry and Metal Black are locked, and can be accessed by inserting a code in the title screen - the reprints of the game would have these games available from the start.^[4]

Taito Memories Gekan

The second entry, Taito Memories Gekan, was released on August 25, 2005. It would be re-released under two different budget labels - first under the Taito BEST label on July 9, 2006^[5] and the second under Eternal Hits on June 28, 2007. Among the included titles, Qix, Elevator Action, Front Line, The NewZealand Story and Gun Frontier are locked, and can be accessed by inserting a code in the title screen - the reprints of the game would have these games available from the start.^[6] The ports of both RayStorm and G-Darius are instead the PlayStation versions instead of the arcade releases.

Taito Memories Pocket

This compilation is a portable version only available for the PlayStation Portable, and was released in Japan on January 5, 2006. It includes 16 titles, four of which are featuring an additional remake version.

Taito Memories II Jōkan

This compilation saw its release on January 25, 2007.

Taito Memories II Gekan

This is the final compilation, released in Japan on March 29, 2007.

Reception

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Notes

References

External links

• TAiTO on jap-sai.com Archived 2016-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Taito Memories on NCSX (National Console Support)