The 8th arcade Taiko, released on March 2006. Arcade Taiko became a lot more forgiving from this version onwards with the addition of the
Revival Roulette, giving you a chance to continue to the next song if you failed to clear the first. The number of chances is reduced as you go higher up the difficulty scale (Futsuu-Muzukashii-Oni), and no matter how badly you suck at Kantan, you'll always be able to play all the songs without going through the roulette. This was to make the arcade more kid-friendly so they can get their money's worth on their first steps into Taiko.
In other developments, the Game Music genre was added here, which is the final genre in the modern set. Baizoku, Sanbai and Yonbai modifiers were added in Taiko 8, and can be accessed together with Doron. The legendary J-Pop song Kurenai was introduced here, and instantly became a revered symbol in Taiko, for being generally a great song, for having long, long streams, and for being the first song with 999 notes (the first song to go beyond 900, in fact).
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