Taito Milestones 3 Revives More Retro Classics In 2024

So there's officially no need to buy standalone Taito Arcade Archives releases, because they'll potentially be in the third collection, in which the games will have the same features seen in Hamster's releases, and physically on top of that.

Rastan please.

This is just a waste of money seeing the random selections of games in the previous collections. When people think of Taito, they think of Space Invaders and Darius, not Dino Rex or Solitary Fighter. You're better off with Arcade Archives and buy the ones you want.

Remember back in the PS2 days when Taito put out the Taito Legends (I think) collections with loads of releases on them? Seems like people were less greedy back then.....

Why are they milking this so hard

Ugh. I regret downloading New Zealand Story in light of this.

Because now I'm going to buy this overpriced collection just so that I have a physical copy of that ONE game (though I might try the others, but I'm not terribly interested).

I suspect that my nostalgia for the money in my wallet will ultimately be far more potent than my nostalgia for these old games.

Does Taito hate Rainbow Islands or something? They seem to determined to keep it off Switch.

@Sisilly_G Haha yes, I too have a terrible feeling retirement will be full of nostalgia for the days of having money!!

Still have hope one day Knuckle Joe comes home... (it will soon be 40 years lol, but not holding out for some sort of anniversary release hahaha!)

Anything special about this version of Darius 2 that isn't in the Darius Cosmic Collection or any other Switch release?

@Warioware : *Companies were less greedy.

If anything, people generally are more generous nowadays for supporting these kinds of stingy releases.

The first collection was 60% off within a year. So I don't understand all the bitching and whining and complaining.

"$15 for 10 games? Wah, wah waaaah!"

@Warioware Yeh, I bought that collection just to have New Zealand Story on something physical.

I'd rather pay more and have all these mini collections consolidated into one than have to buy them individually. Might not bother given the lack of history I have with most of these titles.

@Ironcore Think its something called MONEY, not sure though

@Clyde_Radcliffe
Music issues. Ever my Egret Mini only has RA Extra, which just isn't the same.

Be nice if they included some stuff that Hamster haven't already released, but not holding my breath.

What worries me is what if these games that go to Hamster and later to Taito Milestones have some kind of exclusivity clause that prevents them from going to the Egret II Mini?

The 2nd Arcade Memories expansion pack of games for the Egret was revealed last week. and the selection of games was a little on the meager side. If Taito is holding back titles from their premium mini system that cost some of us a small fortune, well that would just not be cool.

The mini should be leaps and bounds ahead by now and include every single game in the Hamster/Milestone selections, for what we paid! 😓

@Sisilly_G indeed you are correct!

@gcunit there were loads of good collections at reasonable prices back then. I know nothing about emulation quality but prwtty sure Digital Eclipse were active then too. This is also ININ games sl there is every chance that some expanded or consolidated version of these collections will surface later. The new shady scam some of these companies like to do these days

I’m ok just buying the individual games I want. Unless there is an exclusive that is not available separately.
I also prefer having a separate tile for the individual game on the Switch menu.

Just want them to release Chase HQ, SCI, Rainbow Islands, Operation Wolf / Thunderbolt to Arcade Archives

Physical copies of TM1 recently reached $10 on AmazonNA.

Still not worth a purchase, lol.

@Clyde_Radcliffe totally agree. The last release of it was the nasty Extra version on Egret II mini… I’d have probably bought that system if they’d put the original version on. I’d pay full price for a Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars collection for sure.

I see Cadash is the AA release for this week so guess that will be on Vol 3