/vr/ - Retro Games

>Space Invaders
>Darius
>RayForce
>Bubble Symphony
>Pop n Pop
What's not to like?

>I CAN COUNT TO TAITO

>>4105343
Literally my favorite company and has been for decades. Densha de Go! alone puts them at the top for me, not to mention the rest of their catalog.

No video game is more iconic than Space Invaders

Original is still fun

Most of the sequels/remakes are actually pretty good too

>>4105343
Love them. RIP :( . They made so many good arcade games.

>>4105429
RIP? They're still in business and producing new stuff.

>>4105358
>no Rastan
Son...

>>4105429
They just got absorbed into Square-Enix

I wish they had ported their Street Fighter II wannabe to the 5th or 6th gen consoles. It's very good.

Any soundtrack with these guys is always 10/10

They made Lufia so that's pretty awesome.

>>4105515
Recently came across a blog about how the translation almost never happened, and how it was basically a one man project put into our market on a whim.

Game was one of my childhood staples, let me see if I can find the link.

Here it is:
https://arkanoid64.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/lufia-and-the-fortress-of-doom-the-game-that-almost-wasnt-part-one/

Fascinating since it was written by someone who was right there for it.

>>4105343
Fucking awesome

They made a ton of great games especially for turbografx

Natsume made a bunch of games for them though.

Cameltry is an underrated masterpiece.

>>4105431
Yeah but nothing like their glory days. They're effectively dead at this point. Like Konami.
>>4105515
They didn't. Neverland made Lufia.

>>4105526
Wouldn't been a big loss, Lufia 1 is totally generic.

>>4106249
I concur

is now owned by Square Enix and they own all the arcades.

>>4106249
Tatio has a bunch of underrated puzzle games.

>>4105343
Taito Type X is still kicking around in Japan.

>>4108024
>Taito is now a part of Square Enix
CITATION NEEDED

>>4108034
In March 2006, Square Enix, which already owned 93% of the company, wanted to make Taito a wholly owned subsidiary.[22] To accomplish this goal, Square Enix merged Taito into SQEX Corporation.[22] Although the combined company took on the name "Taito Corporation", it was actually Taito that was dissolved and SQEX that was the surviving entity.[22]

>>4108034
Common knowledge, dude.

>>4107990
I agree, and so are many of us, but that doesn't mean we have nothing to offer.

>>4105343
I love Taito. Stellar games. Stellar music. Cool hardware in the early 90s. Hilarious Engrish.
Extremely good shoot-em-ups. RayForce is a 10/10 game.

>>4105442
I tried it with some friends. It's super jank.
but oh boy is it good looking (which is probably why it never got a port -- it feels old compared to the other stuff being released in 1994/1995, and it was too good looking to backport to a 16-bit machine)

>>4106249
Oh yeah, Cameltry is ace.

Bought a Taito collection for PS2 on a whim back in the day.
That Elevator Action sequel was boss as fuck.
Freaking adored it. Probably what triggered my /vr/ love.

Taito Engrish is the best engrish

>>4108203
I dunno, one could make a pretty strong case for Cave Engrish.

>>4108203
>>4108212
Someone make a /vr/ engrish thread

>>4108218
Yeah we haven't had one of those in a month.

A few all time classics like

>>4108147
Elevator Action Returns

but mostly forgettable

>>4105343
>O in TAITO not filled in
Triggering my autism

I prefer Namco but Taito is great also

>>4105515
They really didn't.