Chapter 259 Empire Games’ second game “Pac-Man” is officially launched!

November 1, 1978.

Empire Group Conference Room, Federal Building.

A press conference was held here today regarding the official launch of the second game "Pac-Man" owned by Empire Games.

Personnel present at this press conference.

Morris, general manager of Empire Group.

Barlow, deputy general manager of Empire Games.

Tomohiro Nisikado, Design Director at Imperial Games.

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Since the first game of Imperial Games, "Space Invaders" purchased from Toyo Taito Co., Ltd., was released on April 1, 1978, as of today.

Global sales exceeded 400,000 units, and based on a unit price of US$6,500, the revenue involved was US$2.6 billion, equivalent to HK$14.3 billion.

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

Now it's actually as high as $6,500, and I still can't afford it.

After coming to Xiangjiang, he has gradually adapted to the working atmosphere and pace of work here, even in every aspect.

Almost half an hour.

Tomohiro Nishikado has now completely established his position in the Imperial Games Company, and is already the number one person behind Yang Ming, Barlow, and Xu Qingsheng.

Just three arcade games now.

At the headquarters of Imperial Games, that is, outside the global press conference held in the Imperial Group conference room.

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

On April 1, 1978, when Empire Games' "Space Invaders" was just released, it attracted the love of many reporters.

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

There are three arcade game machines.

The reporters immediately fell silent.

Under the guidance of Yang Ming, Imperial Games has Yuhiro Nishikado fully responsible for the development of the first truly self-developed video game "Pac-Man".

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

Let's introduce this game from the perspective of how fun it is, etc., so that game players and even buyers around the world will feel that it is worth their money.

Reporters from major newspapers and newspapers in Hong Kong, Asia Television, TVB, and major reporters from around the world in Hong Kong rushed over early in the morning after being invited by Empire Games.

"Everything, please be quiet. Now I officially announce the global uniform price of the "Pac-Man" game console."

"$6,500 apiece?"

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

I can afford it.

If the price of a game console can be reduced to US$5,000, or even US$1,000 or two, they still hope to buy one.

Tomohiro Nisikado even invited three reporters to come and play.

He gained the attention and trust of his boss, Mr. Yang, and he put all his talents and hard work into full play.

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In front of the press conference site.

What he spoke was not Japanese, but English.

finally.

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

Compared with "Space Invaders", the game "Pac-Man" is more complex.

After the three reporters expressed their feelings, they all felt that this game is still very exciting and worth playing. In the process of playing, you may even forget about time and all your worries.

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

It was still very expensive, and many reporters present were a little disappointed.

"Everyone, considering the research and development funds, hardware and software expenditures of game consoles, the price of this new "Pac-Man" game is destined to be not cheap. Just like the first game "Space Invaders", it has attracted global attention.

The unified selling price is US$6,500, which when converted into Hong Kong dollars is US$35,750, and when converted into Japanese yen is 1.3 million yen. There may be certain differences depending on the exchange rates in different places around the world.”

What those reporters are most concerned about is the price of this game.

The main languages ​​here are Cantonese and English. As for Oriental, they only speak it when the Oriental people communicate among themselves. Most of the time, they communicate through English.

Xu Qingsheng, who is far away in Japan, will also hold a press conference in Akihabara, Japan on behalf of Imperial Games Company to announce the new launch of this game.

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

When they learned that the global price of a "Space Invaders" arcade game console was as high as $6,500, most reporters were afraid that they wouldn't be able to buy this game console with a year's salary.

When this game console became popular all over the world, it not only drove the arcade market in Japan and Country M, but also drove the arcade game industry, allowing the arcade game industry to enter its golden age.

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

If the male reporters present were asked to choose between a game console or a person they like, they would definitely choose the game console in front of them.

It wasn’t long after Space Invaders was released.

Two male reporters and one female reporter.

"Director Tomohiro Nisikado, I wonder how much this game will cost on the market. Can consumers in Hong Kong and even around the world afford it?"

This is Nisikado Tomohiro's opening remarks.

Tomohiro Nishiko and his wife have also been working hard to learn Cantonese and integrate into the culture of Hong Kong.

After more than half a year of research and development, debugging, and internal testing, we have continued to improve the playability of this game.

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

"Since the successful launch of Empire Games' first game "Space Invaders", under the guidance of Mr. Yang, our chairman, Empire Games, a large amount of research and development funds have been allocated, and our company has quickly developed a second game within the company.

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

Tomohiro Nisikado invited those reporters down again and asked them to express their feelings about the game they just played.

However, arcade games still have a speechless temptation for most people.

"Dear journalists, I am Tomohiro Nisikado, the design director of Imperial Games. I am very happy to see you at this new game launch conference."

Tomohiro Nisikado is a science student and an outstanding game design genius. What he talks about now is introduced from a game as much as possible.

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

Start from the first game and keep playing.

Yang Ming, Mailisi, Nisikado Tomohiro and others actually considered all aspects of this selling price.

In the future, global game console prices are bound to plummet, but things are different now.

If the price is very low from the beginning, it will be difficult for Empire Games to sell it at a higher price in the future. Therefore, the prices of game consoles like these must be gradually reduced.

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