Video games developed by Taito are still available in North America to this day but they now bear the name of other publishers. Like Taito America, Taito Software's catalog was mainly games developed by the Japanese parent company and occasionally games licensed from other companies.ġ995 marked the last year that North America saw the Taito label on new games as Taito America and Taito Software closed down their offices at the same time. Prior to Taito Software, the consumer side was also handled by Taito America. Based in North Vancouver, British Columbia and established in 1988, Taito Software released Taito games exclusively for home computers and consoles. for Taito.īesides Taito America, Taito had another division in North America called Taito Software Inc that was in charge of the non-arcade sector of the company. While the majority of the games Taito America published were games developed by its Japanese parent company, they did also publish games that they licensed from third-party companies, as well as games that were developed in the U.S.
Taito America was based in Wheeling, Illinois and was handling the arcade sector of the company in North America. Space Invaders was inspired by an earlier 1972 electro-mechanical game by Taito called Space Monsters.ĭue to the huge success of Space Invaders, Taito opened in 1979 an American division called Taito America Corporation in order to release games in North America. This game was published in the US by Midway. In 1978 Toshihiro Nishikado, a designer at Taito, created Space Invaders which became the company's most popular title ever and one of the most memorable games in arcade history. It was also in 1973 that they changed their name from Taito Trading Company to Taito Corporation. Later, they began leasing jukeboxes and they eventually started to manufacture their own.Īlthough Taito was already making coin-op mechanical and pinball games during the 1960s, it wasn't until 1973 that Taito introduced their first video arcade game. Taito started out importing and distributing vending machines. The company was founded in 1953 by a Russian businessman named Michael Kogan as Taito Trading Company ( 株式会社太東貿易 kabushikigaisha taitō bōeki ?).
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