We’d like to thank our fans for a wonderful 60 years, we wouldn’t be here without you! We look forward to spending the next 60 years with you as well!!“ Today TAITO is still very active in many aspects of the entertainment business, with divisions handling arcade operations, the design and manufacture of new arcade games, the design and publishing of smartphone games and other digital content, and the creation of a wide variety of merchandise and crane game prizes. (Poke around our Facebook timeline for photos from over the years!) In the beginning, TAITO was Japan’s first distiller and seller of vodka, and the manufacture of peanut vending machines followed, along with jukeboxes, mechanical and electromechanical games, and finally video games.
“ It’s our birthday!! 60 years ago today, in 1953, TAITO (then the Taito Trading Company) was founded by entrepreneur Michael Kogan. This past Friday (the 24th) was a date that was important to arcade and video game history but I did not realize that until I saw a message on Facebook from Taito.
