Chapter 257 Empire Games Company’s second game “Pac-Man”

1978 11 Month 1 Day.

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 conference.

Meris, 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's Taito Co., Ltd., was launched on April 1978, 4, as of today.

Global sales exceeded 40 units. Based on a unit price of US$6500, the revenue involved was US$26 billion, equivalent to HK$143 billion.

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.

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.

It wasn’t long after Space Invaders was released.

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".

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

In the opinion of Tomohiro Nisikado 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, we have continued to improve the playability of this game.

at last.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

"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."

“Since the successful launch of Empire Games’ first game, Space Invaders, under the guidance of Mr. Yang, our chairman, Empire Games, we have allocated a large amount of R&D funds, and our company has quickly developed a second game internally. "

"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."

This is the opening statement of Nishi Kado Tomohiro.

What he spoke was not Japanese, but English.

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

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

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

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.

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.

in front of the press conference site.

There are three arcade game machines.

The three arcade consoles have been ported to the new game Pac-Man and are now ready to play.

Tomohiro Nisikado played 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 launched, it attracted the love of many reporters.

When they learned that the global price of a "Space Invaders" arcade game console was as high as $6500, most reporters were afraid that they wouldn't be able to buy this game console with a year's salary.

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

Tomohiro Nisikado even invited three reporters to come and play.

Two male reporters and one female reporter.

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.

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

Just three arcade games now.

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.

The three reporters began to play under the guidance of Nishiko Tomohiro.

Start with the first game and keep playing.

Almost half an hour.

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

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.

"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?"

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

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

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

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

The reporters immediately fell silent.

"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", the global The unified selling price is US$6500, which is US$35750 when converted into Hong Kong dollars and 130 million yen when converted into Japanese yen. There may be certain differences depending on the exchange rates in different places around the world.”

"$6500 per unit?"

This is still very expensive, and many reporters present were disappointed to hear this.

If the price of a game console can be reduced to US$5000, or even US$ or two, they still hope to buy one.

Now it’s actually as high as $6500, which is still unaffordable.

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 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 these game consoles will gradually decrease.

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