Taito Legends review

How do you see it? Old skool nostalgia or long-forgotten crap? Are you a rabid retro-head or a sneering next-gen obsessive? Either way, it’s a mini-war that needn’t be, especially when we’re talking about over thirty games for less than twenty clams. Perhaps it’s time that both sides of the dispute kissed and made up, and we can all get in the warm and have a great game of New Zealand Story. Er, anyone?

Of course, with thirty titles to slap on one disc, the quality of the games is bound to be varied. Prancing about freeing your fellow kiwis in NZ Story or vomiting rainbows in Rainbow Islands is as blissful as ever it was, but the flipside is the not-so-charming simplicity of titles like Electric YoYo, which basically involves moving around the screen a bit.

If you’ve got a PC and a fast(ish) internet connection, you can get hold of these titles for free via the gift of emulators. But, to have them all in one place, and accessible on your console, means this collection represents an opportunity that shouldn’t be denied.