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Chapter 259 Empire Games' second game "Pac-Man" is officially launched!
1978 11 Month 1 Day.

Federal Building Empire Group Conference Room.

Today, a press conference on the official launch of the second game "Pac-Man" under the Empire Games Company was held here.

Attendees of this conference.

The general manager of Imperial Group, Merris.

Barlow, the deputy general manager of Empire Games.

Tomohiro Nishikaku, design director of Empire Games.

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As of today, since the first game of Empire Games, "Space Invaders", purchased from Toyo's Taito Co., Ltd., was released on April 1978, 4.

The global sales volume exceeded 40 units, according to 6500 US dollars per unit, the revenue involved was 26 billion US dollars, equivalent to 143 billion Hong Kong dollars.

This is an arcade game, and it is also the video game console with the highest sales, highest revenue, and highest net profit in the history of electronic game consoles.

When this game machine became popular all over the world, it not only drove the arcade market in Toyo and M country, but also drove the arcade game industry, making the arcade game industry enter a golden age.

It didn't take long for "Space Invaders" to hit the market.

Under the guidance of Yang Ming, Tomohiro Nishikaku was solely responsible for the research and development of the first video game "Pac-Man" that was truly self-developed by Empire Games.

Compared with "Space Invaders", "Pac-Man" is a more complicated game.

In the eyes of Tomohiro Nishikaku and other Toyo game workers, this game is more fun than "Space Invaders".

After more than half a year of research and development, debugging, and internal testing, the playability of this game has been continuously improved.

at last.

On this day, Empire Games held a press conference to officially release it.

Outside the headquarters of the Empire Games Company, that is, outside the global press conference held here in the Empire Group conference room.

Xu Qingsheng, who is far away in Toyo, will also hold a press conference in Akihabara, Toyo on behalf of Empire Game Company, and at the same time announce the new launch of this game.

Reporters from major newspapers and magazines in Xiangjiang, Asia TV, TVB, and reporters from all over the world stationed in Xiangjiang rushed over early in the morning after being invited by Empire Games.

Meris attended the game conference on behalf of Yang Ming and the Imperial Group, but the real host of the game conference was Tomohiro Nishikaku.

Xijiao Youhong has now firmly established his position in the Empire Game Company, and is already No. 1 under Yang Ming, Barlow, and Xu Qingsheng.

He has gained the attention and trust of his boss, Mr. Yang, and he has given full play to his talent and sweat.

"My friends from the press, I am Tomohiro Nishikado, Design Director of Empire Games, and I am very glad to see you at this new game conference."

"Since the first game of Empire Games "Space Invaders" was successfully launched, under the guidance of Mr. Yang, the chairman of Empire Games, we have allocated a lot of research and development funds, and our company will soon carry out the development of the second game internally. "

"It took nearly half a year, and now the second new game is finally going to meet everyone, as well as many fans and game lovers."

This is Tomohiro Nishikaku's opening remarks.

He didn't speak Japanese, but English.

After coming to Xiangjiang, he has gradually adapted to the working atmosphere and rhythm of work here, even in all aspects.

The main languages ​​here are Cantonese and English. As for the Oriental language, they only speak it when the Orientals communicate within themselves. Most of the time, they communicate in English.

Xijiao Youhong and his wife have also been working hard to learn Cantonese, and have since integrated into the culture of Hong Kong.

Tomohiro Nishikaku is a science student and an outstanding game design genius. What he says now is to introduce as much as possible from a game.

Introduce this game from the degree of fun and so on, so that gamers and even buyers around the world feel that it is worth the money.

In front of the press conference site.

There are three arcade game machines.

These three arcade game machines have been transplanted into the new game "Pac-Man" and can now be played at any time.

Tomohiro Nishikaku operated this game through an arcade game console, which immediately attracted the attention of the reporters present.

On April 1978, 4, when Empire Games' "Space Invaders" was just released, it attracted the likes of many reporters.

At that time, when they learned that a "Space Invaders" arcade game console sold for as high as 6500 US dollars globally, most journalists feared that they would not be able to buy this game console with a year's salary.

Today, this "Pac-Man" game has just been released, and they saw Tomohiro Nishikaku demonstrating there, and they were immediately attracted to it.

Tomohiro Nishikaku even invited three reporters to come up to play.

Two male reporters and one female reporter.

In this era, Xiangjiang is very rich in material and spiritual. There are all kinds of movies, TV dramas, Cantonese operas, novels, comics, news, newspapers, etc. to watch or play.

However, for most people, arcade games still have a kind of unspeakable temptation.

Just three arcade games right now.

If the male reporters present had to choose whether to choose the game console or the person they liked, they would definitely choose the game console in front of them.

The three reporters started playing under the guidance of Tomohiro Nishikaku.

From the first game, keep playing.

About half an hour.

Tomohiro Nishikaku asked those reporters to go down again, and asked them to express their feelings about playing the game just now.

After the three reporters expressed their feelings, they all felt that this game is still very exciting, and it is very worthwhile for players to play. Even in the process of playing, they may forget the time and all the troubles.

"Director Tomohiro Xijiao, I don't know how much this game is going to be on the market. Can consumers in Xiangjiang, or even consumers around the world, afford it?"

. . .

Those reporters are most concerned about the price of this game.

If it was still like "Space Invaders", most of them poor reporters couldn't afford it.

However, if you have time, go to the streets and alleys and see game consoles, game console rooms, you can still play with some money, but if you want to buy a cheap one to take home and play at home, it is not something ordinary people can buy. worthy.

"All kinds, please be quiet. Now I officially announce the global unified price of the "Pac-Man" game console."

The reporters fell silent immediately.

"Everyone, considering the research and development expenses of the game console, hardware and software expenditures, the price of this new "Pac-Man" game is destined to be not cheap. Like the first game "Space Invaders", the global The unified selling price is US$6500, US$35750 when converted into Hong Kong dollars, and 130 million yen when converted into Japanese yen. Depending on the exchange rate in different places around the world, there may be some differences.”

"$6500 for one?"

This is still very expensive, and many reporters present were a little disappointed to hear that.

If the price of a game machine can be reduced to $5000, or even one or two thousand dollars, they still hope to buy one back.

Now it is as high as 6500 US dollars, which is still unaffordable.

Yang Ming, Mai Lisi, Xijiao Youhong and others actually considered various aspects of the price.

In the future, the price of global game consoles will definitely drop sharply, but it is different now.

The price was very low at the beginning, and it would be difficult for Empire Games to sell it at a higher price in the future.Therefore, the prices of these game consoles will be gradually reduced.

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