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Taito games
my favorite is Bubble Bobble

>> No.2763860

>>2763852
>Double Dragon
Technos Japan

>Zero Wing, Twin Cobra
Toaplan

But Taito is still one of the greatest arcade game developers ever...

>Bubble Bobble
>Rainbow Islands
>The New Zealand Story

These 3 games are infinitely replayable and timeless. They're in the Top 10 arcade games ever as far as I'm concerned.

'nuf said

>> No.2763864

>>2763852
puzzle bobble and bubble bobble are favorites

>> No.2763870

>>2763852
Why do all versions of Bubble Bobble outside the original suck? Im talking about games like the GB and Genesis versions.

>> No.2763876

>>2763870
Apparently that Sega Genesis game you're talking of is a Chinese bootleg.

>> No.2763878

>>2763870
Hardware differences obviously. Also, maybe Taito didn't develop the ports themselves and hired some inexperienced 3rd party dev to do them.

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Even shit like Rastan Saga II have great music by based ZUNTATA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EImzYJ3pWOM

>> No.2763895 [DELETED] 

>>2763870
The NES and TG16 versions were good though, never played the GB version but I can't imagine it would be much different from the NES version.

>> No.2763904

>>2763870
The NES version was pretty, never played it but I can't the GB version being THAT different than the NES game, since most GB ports of games that were also on the NES were just the NES games with more scrolling because of the smaller screen.

>> No.2763907

>>2763904
pretty good*

>> No.2763932

playing bubble bobble coop on MAME with controllers hooked up to a PC is a blast

>> No.2763965

Night Striker is my favorite Space Harrier clone

>> No.2764231
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Liquid Kids might be the cutest game ever made. The walking animation while in water makes women instantly love the game.

Taito is one of my favorites. While a lot of their games don't quite hit the mark they are usually overflowing with style and panache.

I've been really digging into New Zealand Story. The game is very hard but there is something very addicting about trying to get further and further into the game.

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Seems like a good excuse to post a pic of my Chase H.Q. Cabinet.

I liked SCI better though.

>> No.2764281 [DELETED] 

Shame I lack the intelligence to post the pic the right way round though

>> No.2764292

They started the arcade boom in Japan with Space Invaders almost 40 years ago and now are the only ones keeping the arcade scene alive with their Type-X boards. Funny stuff.

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2764302

What does /vr/ think of Kaiser Knuckle?

>> No.2764304

>>2764292
Truly the heroes we need

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>>2764302
People only know it as the game with that one meme boss, they don't give it the credit it deserves.

It was the first fighting game with destructible environments as far as I'm concerned.

>> No.2764316

>>2764302

First fighter with a power bar. Highly underrated.

>> No.2764319

>>2763852
Which was the Monster Truck racing arcade game that they did? That was really underrated.

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Seems like a good excuse to post a pic of my Chase H.Q. Cabinet.

I liked SCI better though.

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Obligatory Vertexer post!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuSX3DAss0E

It actually just came to me that Wyvern F-0 after all these years has been finally dumped a year ago. Here's hoping webm related becomes available in the recent future as well.

Speaking of Wyvern F-0,
>The game boards produce two separate video outputs that are sent to two different screens housed in the cabinet. A half-silvered mirror is used to mix the images from the two screens in such a way as to produce a pseudo-3D effect. Backgrounds and enemies on the ground are displayed in the lower screen, while player ship and enemies in the air are displayed in the upper screen. These appear to be at different depths to the eyes of the player, thus giving the illusion of sprites in the air floating above the ground.
>To further enhance the effect, the cabinet also has two speakers. The sound of enemies on the ground is heard from the bottom speaker, while the sound of enemies in the air is heard from the top speaker.

Quite possibly the most innovative arcade developers, together with SEGA.

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Obligatory Vertexer post!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuSX3DAss0E

It actually just came to me that Wyvern F-0 after all these years has been finally dumped a year ago. Here's hoping webm related becomes available in the near future as well.

Speaking of Wyvern F-0,
>The game boards produce two separate video outputs that are sent to two different screens housed in the cabinet. A half-silvered mirror is used to mix the images from the two screens in such a way as to produce a pseudo-3D effect. Backgrounds and enemies on the ground are displayed in the lower screen, while player ship and enemies in the air are displayed in the upper screen. These appear to be at different depths to the eyes of the player, thus giving the illusion of sprites in the air floating above the ground.
>To further enhance the effect, the cabinet also has two speakers. The sound of enemies on the ground is heard from the bottom speaker, while the sound of enemies in the air is heard from the top speaker.

Quite possibly the most innovative arcade developers together with SEGA.

>> No.2764537

>>2763879
Man box art was badass at one time. Looks like shit on newer games.

>> No.2764539

>>2764326
swag as hell

>> No.2764565

>>2763852
>Taito games
>my favorite is
Metal black and elevator action returns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRt4ASsBvUY&index=15&list=PLUPwBkQKCRM4MaXw-BQa7qpjRr0CRnta9

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>didn't knew there was such a thing like Taito Memories and started searching about the games of this collection
>check PS2 version as it's the 6th gen console I have
>plenty of good games, except for Cadash which is my favourite and it's Xbox versuib exclusive

I died a little inside, I don't have a decent setup so I cannot play it in my crt, I guess I'll stick with MAME here on pc ;_;

>> No.2764584

>>2764581
HLSL filters, google it

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2764586

>no Rayforce
Come on, that game's a masterpiece. Raystorm's really good too.

>> No.2764595

>>2764584

Meh, I've seen it before.

>> No.2764597

Like playing Landmamer on good old Raine Emu.

>> No.2764643

>>2764565
Mein nigger
Those games are some of the absolut best along with Darius Gaiden and RayForce/Galactic Attack/Gunforce/Layer Section and RayStorm. The scaling used on those boards are amazing!

>> No.2764645

>>2764643
>darius
Pretty garbage when you get serious about 1cc'ing though. In fact, you should know most of the Taito games are trash if you played them at high level.

>> No.2764661

>>2763852
My favorite Taito game is Little Samson, I had it and beat it, but I traded it for a copy of Aero fighters, a year of Xbox Live, and Super Metroid. That was back when it was in the 600 dollar range.

>> No.2764665

>>2764645
What makes Darius Gaiden bad if you're going for a 1cc? Genuinely curious.

>> No.2764715

>>2764645
>you should know most of the Taito games are trash if you played them at high level.
What a load of fucking bollocks.

>> No.2764770

>>2764645
trash inasmuch as these games rarely have intricate scoring systems - or rather, they depend a lot on farming and milking points (e.g. milking enemies out of doors in Elevator Action 2). Newcomers should not play Taito games solely for score because they are essentially secondary to the game itself. If you want to I mean hey, more power to you.

1CC is a different story - with or without autofire Darius Gaiden is an excellent game.

>>2764586
raycrisis is my underdog of the series - it has its problems but it is a lot more interesting to play for me. I hope R-Gear is dumped sometime in the near future so I can see how RayStorm stacks up with its cancelled 2D proto.

>> No.2764959

Bust a move arcade is great on the n64

>> No.2765123

>>2764302
Great graphics, great sound, lots of interesting mechanics, some great (if certainly derivative) characters), destructable environments; it's criminally underrated.

Overshadowed usually by it's ludicrous difficulty, and supposedly unbeatable boss.

>> No.2765153

Parasol Stars, Liquid Kids and Cadash are my favorites

>> No.2765616

What's the price check on a Power Blade 2 cart?

>> No.2767347

>>2763870
Better question, why are all versions of rainbow island missing the last 3 islands?

>> No.2769502

I use to have a Crime City cabinet as a kid. Bought it for $50 from a guy who had a arcade in his garage.

>> No.2769589

Never played a Taito game I didn't like. Arcade games I mean, their console games can be kind of ehh sometimes.

One I find underrated is Ninja Kids. I think most people see basically muppet ninjas and laugh it off, but it's seriously fun.

>> No.2770052

>>2764302
Thanks for the movelist. Leehoa is the cutest.

>> No.2770115

Which Chase H.Q. version is the best?

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2770313

Happy Halloween fuckers

>> No.2770957

>>2770945
>Taito lost the original source code years ago.
Can't they just reverse engineer the game or something?

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2770972

comfy Taito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPFDQKVUR4

>> No.2770945

>>2763870
Taito lost the original source code years ago.
you try making a port where the only access to the assets is a playthrough of the original

Also seeing arkanoid makes me cringe, its fun as fuck but nothing feels worse than finding an old arcade cab, recognising the shape as a Pac-Man or 720 or something, then seeing it was converted to an arkanoid years prior

only thing worse is seeing rare cabs MAMEd

>> No.2771116

>>2770957
that's way harder than flat out reprogramming it from scratch

a lot of trial and error is usually involved i think

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Densha de go!
my favorite is the final version on Playstation 2

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