This game was re-released on 3 compilation games, including Taito Legends 2 for PlayStation 2 and Taito Memories Pocket (Japan/Asia) and Taito Legends Power Up (Europe) for PSP.
Taking two years to create, the development team included Taito veteran Hiroshi Aoki as director, Taito's in-house band Zuntata as music composers, and external talent in the form of Cowboy Bebop character designer Toshiro Kawamoto and Trigun scenario writer Yōsuke Kuroda in their respective roles.
In 2008, Starfish SD, a company founded by former Hot-B employees, bought the rights from Taito and developed a remake released on Nintendo Wii under the title The Monkey King: The Journey Begins, dubbed Shin Chuuka Taisen: Michael to Meimei no Bouken in Japan.
Colony 7 is an arcade shooter game by Taito Corporation released in 1981 that is in many ways a combination of two of the most popular shoot 'em up games of the time, containing elements of both Taito's own Space Invaders and Atari's Missile Command.
The arcade version of this game comes in both upright or sit-down models, either of which may feature shutter-type 3-D glasses hanging above the player's head, used by Taito under license by the United States Navy, who held the patent on that technology.
An early example of a deathmatch mode in a first-person shooter was Taito's 1992 video game Gun Buster.
After World War II, sumo tournaments moved to various venues in Tokyo and then to the Kuramae Kokugikan arena in Taitō, Tokyo before returning to the Ryōgoku district in 1985.
Enomoto was born as a member of a samurai family in the direct service of the Tokugawa clan in the Shitaya district of Edo (modern Taito, Tokyo).
An early primitive example was in Taito's 1992 first-person shooter arcade game Gun Buster, which featured a unique control scheme where the player moves using an eight-direction joystick and takes aim using a mounted positional light gun.
In Japan, these companies manufactured the game cartridges for the Famicom: Nintendo, Konami, Capcom, Namco, Bandai, Taito, Irem, Jaleco, Sunsoft and Hudson Soft.
Yanaka Cemetery, huge cemetery located north of Ueno in Yanaka 1-chome, Taito, Tokyo, Japan