Landing (series)
{{Infobox video game series
| title = Landing
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| developer = Taito
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| genre = Flight simulation
| spinoffs = Air Inferno
Jet de Go! series
| first release version = Midnight Landing
| first release date = 1987
| latest release version = Landing High Japan
| latest release date = 1999
}}
Landing is a series of flight simulator video games by Taito. Almost all games were released for arcades, except the Jet de Go! Series released for PlayStation consoles.
They are amateur flight simulation arcade video games that run on the Taito Air System and use 3D polygon graphics.{{cite book |last1=Arsenault |first1=Dominic |title=Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System |date=2017 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-03656-6 |page=129 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DPsMEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA129}} They simulate commercial airliners, while utilizing motion simulator cockpit arcade cabinets. Air Inferno (1990) is a spin-off 3D aerial firefighting helicopter simulation running on the same hardware.{{cite news |title=Looking At Taito's history As They Turn 60 |url=https://arcadeheroes.com/2013/08/27/taito-turns-60/ |access-date=19 May 2021 |work=Arcade Heroes |date=2013-08-27}}
''Landing'' series
- Midnight Landing (arcade, JP May 1987,{{cite web |title=Midnight Landing |url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/M731109 |website=Media Arts Database |publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs |lang=ja |access-date=8 July 2021}} {{Abbr|WW|Worldwide}} June 1987){{cite book |last1=Akagi |first1=Masumi |title=アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971–2005) |trans-title=Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971–2005) |date=October 13, 2006 |publisher=Amusement News Agency |lang=ja |location=Japan |isbn=978-4990251215 |page=136-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameList1971-2005/page/n137/mode/2up}}{{cite magazine |title=Arcade Action |magazine=Computer and Video Games |date=15 July 1987 |issue=70 (August 1987) |publisher=EMAP |location=United Kingdom |page=110-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-070/page/n109/mode/2up}}
- Top Landing (arcade, developed 1987, JP July 7, 1988,{{cite web |title=Top landing (Registration Number PA0000494009) |url=https://cocatalog.loc.gov |website=United States Copyright Office |access-date=8 July 2021}} EU December 1988,{{cite magazine |last1=Kelly |first1=Nick |title=Arcades |magazine=Commodore User |date=19 December 1988 |issue=64 (January 1989) |publisher=EMAP |location=United Kingdom |pages=100–3 |url=https://www.solvalou.com/arcade/reviews/275/694}} NA January 1989)
- Landing Gear (arcade, worldwide, February 1996)
- Landing High Japan (arcade, worldwide, June 1999)
= Related game series and spin-offs =
- Air Inferno (arcade, June 1990)
== ''Jet de Go!'' series ==
- Jet de Go! (PlayStation, Game Boy Color, PC - February 2000)
- Jet de Go! 2 (PlayStation 2, PC - 2002)
- Jet de Go! Pocket (PSP - 2005)
Reception
Midnight Landing was the eighth highest-grossing upright/cockpit arcade game of 1987 in Japan.{{cite magazine |title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25: '87 |magazine=Game Machine |issue=324 |publisher=Amusement Press, Inc. |date=15 January 1988 |page=20 |lang=ja |url=https://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19880115p.pdf#page=11}} It was later Japan's sixth highest-grossing dedicated arcade game of 1988.{{cite magazine |title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25: '88 / "Game of the Year '88" By Game Machine |magazine=Game Machine |issue=348 |publisher=Amusement Press, Inc. |date=15 January 1989 |pages=10–1, 26 |lang=ja |url=https://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19890115p.pdf#page=14}}
Top Landing was the fifth highest-grossing dedicated arcade game of 1989 in Japan.{{cite magazine |title=Videos of The Year; "Tetris", "Chase H.Q." |magazine=Game Machine |issue=372 |publisher=Amusement Press, Inc. |date=15 January 1990 |page=26 |lang=ja |url=https://onitama.tv/gamemachine/pdf/19900115p.pdf#page=14}} It was also a success in Europe, particularly France.{{cite magazine |last=Openshaw |first=Mary |title=Paris Says Oui! Pins, video and — surprise! — poll all shine at best Paris show ever |magazine=RePlay |date=March 1990 |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=134–5 |url=https://archive.org/details/re-play-volume-14-issue-no.-6-march-1990-600dpi/RePlay%20-%20Volume%2014%2C%20Issue%20No.%206%20-%20March%201990/page/134/mode/2up}} In North America, it topped the monthly RePlay chart for new arcade video games in August 1990.{{cite magazine |title=RePlay: The Players' Choice |magazine=RePlay |date=August 1990 |volume=15 |issue=11 |page=4 |url=https://archive.org/details/re-play-volume-14-issue-no.-11-august-1990-600dpi/RePlay%20-%20Volume%2014%2C%20Issue%20No.%2011%20-%20August%201990/page/4}}