Daikaiju no Gyakushu is a shoot 'em up arcade game by Taito Corporation, released in 1986.
Shooter games are a sub-genre of action game, which often test the player's speed and reaction time. It includes many subgenres that have the... commonality of focusing "on the actions of the avatar using some sort of weapon. Usually this weapon is a gun, or some other long-range weapon". A common resource found in many shooter games is ammunition. Most commonly, the purpose of a shooter game is to shoot opponents and proceed through missions without the player character dying. There are many criteria to determine the type of shooter; listed below are some of the major divisions. Using the following, it is possible to categorize almost all shooters developed. The player usually views the events from behind the eyes of the character or from a camera that follows the character, usually a few feet behind . It is also possible for a game to have a fixed camera, especially shooting gallery games and some 2D overhead shooters such as Robotron 2084. Games that attempt to emulate life-like ballistics and character damage include tactical shooters.more
The Taito Corporation is a Japanese publisher of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. Taito has their headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company. Taito imports and distributes... American coin-op video games in Japan, as well as their own games all around the world. Taito also owns several game centers in Japan known as Taito Stations. Taito Corporation currently has a subsidiary in Beijing, China. In the past, the company had operated divisions in North America, Brazil, South Korea and Italy. The company was founded in 1953 by a Russian Jewish businessman named Michael Kogan as Taito Trading Company . Taito started out importing and distributing vending machines. Later, they began leasing jukeboxes and they eventually started to manufacture their own. They eventually began producing electro-mechanical arcade games in the 1960s. Taito introduced their first video arcade game in 1973. It was also this year that they changed their name from Taito Trading Company to Taito Corporation.more