Nintendo Switch Taito Milestone containing 1980s arcade games collection. Taito Milestones includes the following titles: - The Ninja Warriors - Halley’s Comet - The Fairyland Story - Chack’n Pop - Elevator Action - Alpine Ski - Wild Western - Front Line
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I love the idea of these compilations of Arcade Archives ports, like what they did with Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection for Konami. It was cheap, a great deal compared to getting all of the games individually, was consisted of stone hard classics (and some neat obscurities), and provided a nice fill of extras and supplemental material, even if it stripped away some of the usual ACA points like leaderboards. So Taito decided to do the same thing except do the exact opposite of all that. A shame, really.
This is a barebones collection of 10 games. For ~$50. That same Konami collection, while it had 8 games, was $20. Yikes. And most of the games here aren't even great by any stretch of the means. In fact, the only worthwhile games here in my opinion here are Elevator Action, Fairyland Story, Qix, Halley's Comet, and MAYBE Ninja Warriors (I only like the OST in it, but the game itself has its fans too, I suppose). All of which have Arcade Archives ports on Switch and PS4 that you can play literally right now, which are all literally the same exact porting job as on here.
Aside from those, all the games here range from forgettable like Alpine Ski, to outright garbage like Chack'n Pop, and it's honestly really baffling how Taito and Hamster thought any of these are "Milestones" aside from that select few. Like mentioned, they didn't even have the courtesy to include any extras, whether it be art or even history-related reads - that's locked to the expensive Strictly Limited collector's edition (which I am getting, sadly, since I need to provide scans of the instruction cards/flyers of the games that don't have those available online somehow, and the originals are way more expensive). Hard pass unless it's on a deep discount and/or you really, really like Taito that much. I'm a huge Taito fan and even I think this is a pretty bad collection.
Just get the ACA ports of the games I mentioned and forget about this. Aside from the physical copies being pressed, this is the most pointless retro collection that has ever existed.
This is a barebones collection of 10 games. For ~$50. That same Konami collection, while it had 8 games, was $20. Yikes. And most of the games here aren't even great by any stretch of the means. In fact, the only worthwhile games here in my opinion here are Elevator Action, Fairyland Story, Qix, Halley's Comet, and MAYBE Ninja Warriors (I only like the OST in it, but the game itself has its fans too, I suppose). All of which have Arcade Archives ports on Switch and PS4 that you can play literally right now, which are all literally the same exact porting job as on here.
Aside from those, all the games here range from forgettable like Alpine Ski, to outright garbage like Chack'n Pop, and it's honestly really baffling how Taito and Hamster thought any of these are "Milestones" aside from that select few. Like mentioned, they didn't even have the courtesy to include any extras, whether it be art or even history-related reads - that's locked to the expensive Strictly Limited collector's edition (which I am getting, sadly, since I need to provide scans of the instruction cards/flyers of the games that don't have those available online somehow, and the originals are way more expensive). Hard pass unless it's on a deep discount and/or you really, really like Taito that much. I'm a huge Taito fan and even I think this is a pretty bad collection.
Just get the ACA ports of the games I mentioned and forget about this. Aside from the physical copies being pressed, this is the most pointless retro collection that has ever existed.