Taito
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| legal form | Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | August 24, 1953 |
| Seat | Tokyo |
| management | Yōichi Wada |
| Number of employees | 848 |
| sales | 69.7 billion yen (approx. € 550 million) |
| Branch | Consumer electronics |
| Website | www.taito.com |
Taito Ebina Development Center
The Taitō KK ( Japanese タ イ ト ー 株式会社 , Taitō kabushiki-gaisha ) is a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo . Taito was founded in 1953 by Michael Kogan . One of their first arcade games was Elepong in 1973 .
In September 2005 Taito was bought by Square Enix and merged with Square Enix 'subsidiary SQEX Corporation. Since then, games for arcade devices and mobile phones have mainly appeared under the Taito brand.
Musically, many games were provided by the house band Zuntata .
Well-known games
- Arkanoid
- Bubble bobble
- Bubble memories
- Bubble Symphony
- Cameltry / On the Ball
- Chase HQ 1 & 2
- Darius
- Densha de Go!
- Elevator Action
- Estopolis / Lufia
- Flying Shark / Sky Shark
- Jungle Hunt
- Liquid kids
- Lost Magic
- Mr. Do!
- New Zealand Story
- Ninja Warriors, The
- Operation Wolf
- Parasol Stars
- Phoenix
- Power Shovel
- Puzzle Bobble / Bust-a-Move
- Puzznic
- Rainbow Islands
- Space Invaders
- Taito Legends (1 and 2) = collection of several games
- Qix
- Volfied
- Ginban Kaleidoscope (the mobile game)
Web links
Commons : Taito Corporation - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- Website In: taito.co.jp (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Corporate Profile 2008. ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed December 31, 2008 (PDF; 3.9 MB).
- ↑ http://www.gamespot.com/news/square-enix-subsumes-taito-6134186
- ↑ http://zuntata.jp/
