Update: August 24, 2005
The second volume of Taito's coin-op compilation collects another 25 games which include three versions of Space Invaders, five shooters including the highly enjoyable Insector X and the impressive G-Darius, and classics such as Qix, Legend of Kage, New Zealand Story, and Crazy Balloon. The games in chronological order of release in Taito Memories Gekan are as follows: 01) 1978 Space Invaders
02) 1979 Space Invaders Part 2
03) 1980 Crazy Balloon
04) 1980 Balloon Bomber
05) 1981 Qix
06) 1982 Wild Western
07) 1983 Elevator Action
08) 1983 Chack 'n Pop
09) 1983 Front Line
10) 1985 Legend of Kage
11) 1988 New Zealand Story
12) 1988 Rastan Saga 2
13) 1988 Ramais
14) 1989 Insector X
15) 1989 Cadash
16) 1989 Violence Fight
17) 1990 Gun Frontier
18) 1990 Hat Trick Hero
19) 1990 Mizubaku Daibouken (Liquid Kids)
20) 1992 Arabian
21) 1995 Akkanvader
22) 1995 Gekirindan
23) 1995 Puzzle Bobble 2
24) 1996 Raystorm
25) 1997 G Darius View the back cover and screenshots. NCS Game Notes
* The intro to the Taito Memories Gekan shows the various games in the collection in action in sped-up motion along with big as well as small Taito Game Collection text scrolling around. * Selection of games is made on a list which shows the date and name of each game (in Japanese) along with an image of the game on the right portion of the screen. Press "O" to select and play. L2 acts as the quarter dropper for credits. * Players may use the D-pad or the L-Analog pad to play the various games in the collection. We generally found that the D-pad offered more precise control but games like Puchi-Carat were slightly more comfortable with the analog thumbstick. * Golden Ogre, the first level boss in G-Darius, is still a patsy and easy to defeat. It'll be fish filets in no time... The second level boss, Ancient Dozer, puts on more of a show and is slightly more formidable thanks to its use of guided missles and spray-shot which lace the screen.
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