News: Taito Memories

April 27, 2005, 06:10 AM

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Along with the Mushihime-sama PS2 port, the latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed the titles to be included in the first volume of the recently announced Taito Memories for PS2. 25 (!) arcade games from the very early gaming years to the mid 90s have been chosen to represent this company's history. Release date is July 28th and the volume 2 will follow soon after. This is the full list:




Space Invaders
Lunar Rescue
Alpine Ski
The Fairyland Story
Kiki Kaikai [Knight Boy]
Bubble Bobble
Rastan Saga [Rastan]
Kuri Kinton
Syvalion
Jigoku Meguri [Bonze Adventure]
Cameltry
Don Doko Don
Flipull [Plotting]
Aa Eikou no Koshien
Majestic Twelve [Super Space Invaders '91]
Runark [Growl]
Pulirula
Metal Black
Grid Seeker
Space Invaders DX
Darius Gaiden
Light Bringer [Dungeon Magic]
Elevator Action Returns [Elevator Action 2]
Cleopatra Fortune
Puchi Carat

Sadly, it also has been reported that the company's benefits of the last fiscal year have not been as good as they expected, and they're planning cost reductions on console games development. Here's a gamasutra article on the subject, in english.