Update: January 3, 2006
©NCSX▪ Between 1980 and 1989, Taito produced a number of classic coin-op video games such as Qix and Rainbow Islands that gulped down buckets of quarters/yen/etc. Instead of blanketing every game in Taito Memories Pocket as a "classic", Taito avoids derision by calling the games "memories" instead. Both veritable classics and memories are gathered today in a PSP retro collection which culls code from the two earlier PS2 Taito Memories. In addition to the original aspect ratio for the games, players may toggle to a slightly elongated aspect ratio where the borders don't take up as much screen real estate. There's also full screen mode where borders are banished entirely and the game is stretched to fill up the entire screen. If a game was originally a horizontally oriented game, the full screen mode stretches it across the PSP screen. If the game was originally a vertically oriented game, players rotate the PSP 90˚ counter-clockwise to view the game in its original vertical orientation. Bonus Inclusion
Every copy of Taito Memories Pocket includes a bonus 20-page booklet which features flyer artwork and specs for the games included in the collection. The full listing of games included in Taito Memories Pocket is as follows:
# Year | Game
01) 1980 | Crazy Balloon
02) 1980 | Balloon Bomber
03) 1980 | Lunar Rescue
04) 1981 | Qix
05) 1982 | Alpine Ski
06) 1983 | Elevator action
07) 1983 | Chack n' Pop
08) 1985 | Legend of Kage
09) 1985 | Fairyland story
10) 1986 | Kiki Kaikai Ninja
11) 1987 | Rastan Saga
12) 1988 | Kuri Kinton
13) 1988 | New Zealand Story
14) 1988 | Ramais
15) 1988 | Rainbow Islands Extra
16) 1989 | Cameltry Remakes of Old Code
Balloon Bomber 2005
Cameltry 2005
Crazy Balloon 2005
Legend of Kage 2005 The alternate SKU # for this product is ULJM-05076. View the back cover and screenshots on the main NCSX site.
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