The PC-Engine...

[Papercut]

Sounds like you've got a Duo R or Duo RX - the original Duo was dark purple.

With an arcade card duo you would be able to play almost every game, except for a handful that insist on certain versions of the system card.

[Baseley09]

Forget it

[Pirotic]

Just checked, its the black one with the purple button (fancy not knowing your own consoles). i've been advised to stay away from CD games are the original duo's had an overheating problem and sometimes the audio can not play correctly on CD based games, so i'm just going for the hu cards

[Commander Marklar]

I PM'd you something dude, check it out.

That auction? Sniped!

[HANGMAN]

The PC Engine is indeed a great machine, but the quality of arcade ports isn't always the highest. PC Engine Out Run, Strider, and Golden Axe are pretty poor, and the Amiga version of New Zealand Story is better than the PC Engine one (Mega Drive version is possibly the best). Having said that the PC Engine version of Rainbow Islands, Liquid Kids and Parasol Stars are definitive outside of the arcade.

The Amiga version of new zeland story better than the pc engine version!!!!!

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO GOT THIS JOKE?

Made me laugh anyway

[MD]

No really, The Amiga version is very good. The Amiga did have a couple of good arcade convertions.

Still prefer the Megadrive one though, even if it is New Zealand Story Remix...

[pcb_revival]

I am gonna through in Don Doko Don into the PCE platforming mix.

It can be a frustrating game, but boy was Taito H O T back then.



btw anyone got the arcade board for sale?

[Mad Gear]

I'm still winning another too, one of videogamecabbage's auctions. It has a memory backup thing with it and a couple more games. Seems like good value for money. Sods law I win that one too, I'll sell it on if I do.

Heh

Got you out of the shizzle.

[Leon Retro]

Amiga had some good conversions, NewZealand Story, Rainbow Islands, RodLand, Parasol Stars, Mega Twins, Black Tiger, plus others.

I just wish the snes had received some conversions, I think it's slow processor prevented companies like Taito bothering.

[Mad Gear]

Can't wait for the Taito History disc for PS2.

Its gonna be super sweet.

[gordon]

Can't wait for the Taito History disc for PS2.

I missed that one -- what's going to be on it?

[Mad Gear]

I don't think the final list of whats going on the disc has been released yet.
But its coming next year and i can't wait.

Theres stacks of ace Taito stuff so it may well be released in volumes a la Namco museum. But that just speculation.

[Leon Retro]

If its a pitiful amount of games I will be annoyed. Taito games in particular are very small files, though the games are big on fun, it's still would be dodgy if they only put 6games on a disc. Then again, how many classic Taito games are there, only a handful that I can think of.

[MD]

Taito are one of the oldest video game makers in the business and have made some great games including (off the top of me head).

Gun Man
Speed Race
Space Invaders
Qix
Elevator Action
Jungle Hunt
Gyrodine
Chack 'n Pop
The Legend of Kage
Fairyland Story
Tiger Heli (Yes I know its a Toaplan game but it's on Taito hardware....)
Great Gurianos
Arkanoid
Bubble Bobble
New Zealand Story
Rainbow Islands
Don Doko Don
Pu Li Ru La
Operation Wolf
Rastan
Cloud Master
Flipull
Hat Trick Hero
Puzznic
Scramble Formation
Darius
G Darius
Ray Storm
Daisenpu
Twin Cobra
Gekirindan
Kiki Kai Kai
Insector X
Volfied
Thunder Fox
Final Blow
Liquid Kids
Camel Try
Chase HQ
Continetal Circus
Midnight Landing
Ground Effects
Densha De Go!
Landing Gear
Stunt Typhoon
Side By Side
Battle Gear
Puzzle Bobble
Cleopatra Fortune
Cliff Hanger
Laser Grand Prix
Time Gal
Psychic Force
Zoids Infinity

Just to name a few.

And they have published a lot of games to and from America, publishing games from Capcom, Data East and Technos in the states and Williams, Atari and Midway in Japan... They have also published games for companies like Taoplan, Success, Alfa System and many more...

A great company all in all.

[Baseley09]

Taito blah blah

WTF

Never hear of them, must be ****.