{"id":130980,"date":"2023-01-04T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-143178"},"modified":"2023-01-04T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T05:05:00","slug":"taito-corporation-preparing-for-70th-anniversary-celebrations-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/taito-corporation-preparing-for-70th-anniversary-celebrations-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Taito Corporation Preparing For 70th Anniversary Celebrations In 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f4e7a8e7ccf1\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f4e7a8e7ccf1\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Taito 70th anniversary\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe7272261ebcc\/taito-70th-anniversary.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe7272261ebcc\/taito-70th-anniversary.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Taito 70th anniversary\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Taito Corporation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The famous video game developer Taito Corporation &#8211; known for legendary arcade hits like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/space_invaders\">Space Invaders<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/bubble_bobble\">Bubble Bobble<\/a> &#8211; will celebrate its 70th anniversary on 24th August 2023. To prepare for this epic milestone, the company has already kicked things off by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taito.co.jp\/70th\">opening a commemorative website<\/a> and a special Twitter account:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Happy New Year&#8230; Taito celebrates its 70th anniversary this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/taito70th\/statuses\/1609202854614507524 @ 2023-01-04T05:03:46+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7<br \/>\u3042\u3051\u307e\u3057\u3066<br \/>\u304a\u3081\u3067\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\ud83c\udf89<br \/>\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6\u25c7\u25c6<\/p>\n<p>\u30bf\u30a4\u30c8\u30fc\u306f\u4eca\u5e74\u3067\u5275\u7acb70\u5468\u5e74\u3092\u8fce\u3048\u307e\u3059\u3002<br \/>\u904a\u3073\u3092\u8ffd\u6c42\u3057\u7d9a\u3051\u305f70\u5e74\u5206\u306e\u697d\u3057\u3055\u3092<br \/>\u307f\u306a\u3055\u307e\u306b\u304a\u5c4a\u3051\u3067\u304d\u308b\u3088\u3046\u306b\u2755<br \/>\u4eca\u5e74\u3082\u7cbe\u9032\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3059\u2728<\/p>\n<p>\u672c\u5e74\u3082<br \/>\u30bf\u30a4\u30c8\u30fc\u3092<br \/>\u5b9c\u3057\u304f\u304a\u9858\u3044\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3059\u2755<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC70th?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30bf\u30a4\u30c8\u30fc70th<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JaxYXgshVa\">pic.twitter.com\/JaxYXgshVa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 70\u5468\u5e74\u306e\u30bf\u30a4\u30c8\u30fc\ud83c\udf89 (@Taito70th) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Taito70th\/status\/1609202854614507524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Taito was founded in 1953 by Michael Kogan. It made a name for itself with vending machines and jukeboxes and then moved into <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Taito_games\">electro-mechanical games<\/a> in the 60s. This followed with its entry into the video game arcade cabinet business in 1973 &#8211; with Tomohiro Nishikado creating the popular shoot &#8217;em up Space Invaders in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from some local promotions in Japan such as giveaways and restaurant events, it&#8217;s unclear at this stage what exactly Taito has planned for its big 70th anniversary celebration. One highlight for the company over the past year was its mini arcade cabinet &#8211; the Egret II Mini. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/reviews\/the-taito-egret-ii-mini-is-a-doorway-into-true-gaming-history\" class=\"external\">learn more about it on our retro game website Time Extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:136666,125222,133661,137838 @ 2023-01-04T11:10:29+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>As we get closer to the anniversary later this year, we&#8217;ll be sure to keep you updated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Taito Corporation The famous video game developer Taito Corporation &#8211; known for legendary arcade hits like Space Invaders and Bubble Bobble &#8211; will celebrate its 70th anniversary on 24th August 2023. To prepare for this epic milestone, the company has already kicked things off by opening a commemorative website and a special Twitter account: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}