The Dark Side of Taito

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• BL

  @BlueMSX-l4r · 1 month ago

  Taito Brazil! thanks for using my video suggestion pojr! great video!

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• KI

  @KieferSkunk · 1 month ago

  "Could they have made more original things?" Often, these subsidiary companies and branches have two problems: Since they represent the parent company, they usually have to stick with the parent's decisions, including which games and IPs to produce. They also often don't have the creative staff to develop new IPs, nor the communication channels needed to get approval from the parent. So, especially given the import ban in Brazil, making clones of existing games to run on Moon Cresta hardware was really the only option they had to be competitive, and it's evident that Taito Japan basically said "Yeah, go for it". By the time they were doing this, Taito JP was already moving on to games that were too complex and graphically intensive to run on hardware like that.

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• ST

  @StrikerZero6 · 1 month ago

  He called a pickaxe a hammer XD

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• BR

  @brionnebean · 1 month ago (edited)

  to be completely honest, i love the falling stars in kong’s background. i always adore the imagery of bright twinkling dots - not even just stars necessarily - gently falling from a dark sky, it feels really cozy and scratches my autism brain nicely. there’s a Sonic Frontiers mod called “Original Cyberspace Themes” that gives stage 3-3 a similar aesthetic and i find myself coming back to it a lot just for that

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• SH

  @ShinoSarna · 1 month ago

  Even in the 70s and early 80s, video game industry in Brazil involved bootlegging due to restrictive import laws. Now that's an omen of things to come!

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• CY

  @Cyclobomber · 1 month ago

  From what I know, old arcade hardware (before interchangeable carts/boards like CPS or MVS) was tailor made for the specific game.<br>As such, only having hardware for Moon Cresta and cobbling together DK, Time Pilot or Galaga is commendable, even if they suck.<br>Also, as others have pointed out, Brazil was crushed by a dictatorship during 20 years, which forced Brazilians to cobble together a lot of bootlegs...

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• DA

  @dayveeman · 1 month ago

  If you&apos;ve never seen the ZigZag Logo on the marquee artwork (not the in-game logo), it&apos;s amazing how much it looks like DigDug, they were hoping you weren&apos;t looking at it too hard before dropping in your money.

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• RA

  @RallzGuitar · 1 month ago

  From the 60s to the 80s, Brazil was under a strict military dictatorship. Import was almost impossible and &nbsp;Brazil was way behind in technology advancement. My guess is that they tried to make do with what was available there for them. That period of time saw a lot of weird things happening for the country to be able to import any tech at all. IBM had to start an Orange farm in order to be able to legally import their mainframes during that time, and yeah, like, orange the fruit really!

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• MA

  @Markimark151 · 1 month ago

  Taito Brazil isn’t that surprising because of the gaming laws in Brazil are much different than the rest of the world. But I like their idea of making their own pinball machines to skirt the laws. Brazil is known for Sega Master System having more games than the NES in their country!

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• BL

  @blakegriplingph · 1 month ago

  It basically has something to do with the sociopolitical and economic landscape in Brazil at the time. They were under a military dictatorship and authorities imposed steep tariffs on imported electronics supposedly to shore up the local industry.

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• XE

  @xenos_n. · 1 month ago

  Arkanoid is my favorite Taito game, it was so much fun. Yeah it was a Breakout clone but it added powerups and the laser weapon and more which just made it infinitely better. Played it a bunch on PC and NES.

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• FI

  @fionagibson3314 · 1 month ago

  I can remember back in the late 80s they where selling brand new Space Invaders upright arcade machine the exact size from the arcade, only 1 game for $2200 Australian back then.

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