Taito (1988)

Taito (1988)

What is a Taito indeed? Taito once was a well known producer of arcade games. They were around from the very beginning producing one of the earliest and most famous video arcade games, Space Invaders. For a time, they also produced home video games and this ad is from that time. While Taito isn't quite as well known as they once were, they are still around and were purchased by Square/Enix a while back. More recently, they have started producing content for home consoles again with Darius Cozmic Collection recently released for the Nintendo Switch. However, the last arcade release I could find was Left 4 Dead: Survivors from 2014 and that one was only released in Japan. This ad is from the June 1988 issue of Computer Gaming World and was from a much more prolific time period for Taito. The titles featured in this ad, Bubble Bobble, Alcon, Arkanoid, Renegade and Rastan were all excellent games and available for systems like the Commodore 64, Nintendo, DOS based PCs and other systems of the time. I definitely recommend checking out these older Taito classics whether on original platforms or via emulation.