Taito Memories Vol. 1: Confirmed game list.

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:09 pm

Hamapika/Famitsu:

Space Invaders
Lunar Rescue
Alpine Ski 1982
Faery Land Story
Rastan Saga
Bubble Bobble
Syvalion
Cameltry
Don Doko Don
Flipull
Majestic 12
Runark
Pulirula
Metal Black
Grid Seeker
Space Invaders DX
Darius Gaiden
Lightbringer
Elevetor Action Returns
Cleopatra Fortune
Puchi Carat

And more...

Out on July 28th.

http://www.fiberbit.net/user/hamapika/product/pro1.htm

Edited for accuracy.

sjewkestheloon · Post by **sjewkestheloon** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:12 pm

sweet as a nut. any chance of a pal release does anyone know? having an unmodded ps2 and no cash means imports are a nono at the mo

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:14 pm

And the rest:

Kiki Kai Kai
Kuri Kinton
Jigoku Meguri
Aa Eikou no Koshien

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:40 pm

Great news indeed. I'm with Randorama now in the Taito fanboy club

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:43 pm

No Gladiator??

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:54 pm

What an awesome compilation! Metal Black too, now I won't have to pay for the Saturn rev.

Bubble Bobble is nice and a given but I wonder if other greats like New Zealand Story or Liquid Kids will be on there too? Hey Capcom, you taking any NOTES on how to do your rumoured mega compilation based on this?

Between this and the Mushihime port I could not have picked a better time to decide to buy an import PS2. Both the Taito collection and Mushi are released at about the same time, what a great summer for 2D. Hurry up tax refund!!!! (next year I am filing online grrr)

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:10 pm

That's pretty damn ambitious...much newer games than I thought.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:13 pm

Ganelon wrote:That's pretty damn ambitious...much newer games than I thought.

Yeah, like I said, I'm amazed Metal Black is on there. And I have never played it in arcade, Sat or emu and look at all the other goodies already.

So Capcom, feel like maybe actually giving me a reason to buy your comp over Taito's? Oh..ya know, like putting ALL the 194X series, ya know such as putting ALL of the games in the series on the discs including '41 and XX would help. Oh yeah, and Varth too.

Seriously if Taito and Capcom's mega comps were released the same day it's almost a sure thing I'd get Taito's over theirs. Unless of course Capcom includes XX and a lot of other more "modern" classics that could be emulated very easily on PS2 instead of dumping 95% stuff already available on the old Sat and PSX generation discs.

EDIT: Wow, Darius Gaiden too, nice.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:56 pm

Kiki Kai Kai and Bubble Bobble alone are making this a worthy purchase for everyone not owning these already... that is if they get a good port...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:03 pm

The fact that Metal Black might be on there has got me particularly interested.

However, only one Darius game?

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:16 pm

OK. Not a rumor anymore. It's the actual game list for Vol. 1, confirmed by Famitsu now. Vol. 2 will include Rainbow Islands and Operation Wolf.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:31 pm

Thanks for the heads up, Recap.

I'm not terribly stoked about this, though, as I already own a chunk of the stuff they're putting out. Still, for those that will finally get to play Metal Black (which I quite like despite it's mediocre reputation), this is good news indeed.

Regardless, I will buy this of course. And the Capcom comp. And whatever other 2-D re-releases they put in front of me. Just like the salivating, Pavlovian dog that I am.

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:53 pm

And even will have a reduced price: 5,000 yen.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:56 pm

Holy freakin' crap. Metal Black on that comp too (of course I already own it, but this is just nutz!) Let the big Taito love in BEGIN! RASTAN!!! (I assume will get the original Rastan 1!!!) This and the Capcom set (never mind Taito Memories 2) Holy holy holy! I am telling you, 2005 is THE YEAR!

tehkao · Post by **tehkao** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:00 am

I wonder if it's just MAME and a bunch of Taito ROMs put on a CD...

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:00 am

Ooh, a sweet, sweet list of games indeed. Lots of new stuff on there, very nice. If Vol. 1 is that good... by all means, bring on Vol. 2 as quickly as possible! (I don't see Operation Wolf being nearly as fun at home as it was in the arcades though... whatever.)

I love the SNES Kiki Kaikai games, but the original is a bit... basic. It's still fun, but I found that it didn't age too well for me. Your mileage may vary of course.

Capcom recently re-released the Capcom Generations 1 & 2 collections along with a mini-strategy guide, so I don't think a Capcom collection is in the cards for now. It would sure be nice if I was wrong though.

As for Konami... yeah, I'd love to see a collection of their 8-bit / 16-bit stuff as opposed to the MSX discs. The MSX games are fun, but... I like their later stuff a bit more, personally. Actually, if they released something with their MSX-2 games on it, that'd be pretty damn cool as well.

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:03 am

tehkao wrote:I wonder if it's just MAME and a bunch of Taito ROMs put on a CD...

MAME on PS2? No way. Emulation? Most likely.

tehkao · Post by **tehkao** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:03 am

Wow, Syvalion looks like a really cool shmup. Kinda like Saint Dragon or Dragon Breed. How come people don't ever talk about it here?

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:04 am

tehkao wrote:Wow, Syvalion looks like a really cool shmup. Kinda like Saint Dragon or Dragon Breed. How come people don't ever talk about it here?

'Cause it's crap.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:14 am

OMFGIEZ, this is awesome...they better release it stateside!

Is anyone else really happy about Pulirula being on there

Kinda surprised Gun Frontier isn't on there since Pulirula and Metal Black are.

yojo! · Post by **yojo!** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:14 am

Recap wrote:
tehkao wrote:Wow, Syvalion looks like a really cool shmup. Kinda like Saint Dragon or Dragon Breed. How come people don't ever talk about it here?
'Cause it's crap.

I agree, total crap

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:35 am

First off, Syvalion isn't really a shooter, at least not any more than Sub Terrania or Ecco the Dolphin.

Secondly, as stated, it sucks. The movement scheme is simply horrid.

tehkao · Post by **tehkao** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:48 am

Oh well, the static screenshots looked really good though.

Looks like Taito games are well known for being good ideas that were executed poorly....

Tar-Palantir · Post by **Tar-Palantir** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:05 am

@Tehkao: You are 100% right about Taito games (esp. shmups). Examples are Exzisus and most Dariuses.

Syvalion was meant to be played with a trackball in the arcade (hence bad control on other media), but its soundtrack kicks OGR, Namiki and that Treasure guy's ass .

But I don't understand...why Darius Gaiden and Elevator Action Returns (got a recent GBA release, right)? Are New Zealand Story and Chack N' Pop there?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:41 am

Hmmm...speaking of Syvalion, I read somewhere that the Darius Silverhawk makes an appearence somewhere in the game? Is there any truth to that?

I also think that Metal Black is a cool game, I know it is simplistic, but it is still fun.

Taito should come out with a Darius collection, with every Darius game on it.

dczx · Post by **dczx** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:26 am

what about rezon?

visuatrox · Post by **visuatrox** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:34 am

Wow much better than expected,

Darius Gaiden <- That alone makes it worth it

it290 · Post by **it290** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:37 am

Sweet, I'm psyched. I would have liked to have seen Crime City on there, though... nice Rolling Thunder/Shinobi type game. And also related, I can't help but feel they've left out one of the absolute best Taito games: Chase HQ.

gunbird18 · Post by **gunbird18** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:45 am

No comment on Gridseeker???

Not the most exciting shmup out there, but I am stoked since there was no home port! Kinda like getting Samurai Aces on the Psikyo collection. Played it to death in MAME, but it becomes exciting again when you get a home port!

yojo! · Post by **yojo!** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:58 am

The other great shooter missing from this collection is Ryu Jin (AKA dragong god). Maybe for the next collection...