Opening at Kids Corner, kids surged into the hall.
The same as previous day, a lot of game fans were waiting from early morning. About 19,000 visitors surged into the each hall that they particularly wanted to see.
Playing at the event stage
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PR by music and dance
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At the event stage, "Creators' Talk Battle," the popular event series, was held from 11:30.
The creators who take part in were Mr. Keiji Inafune(CAPCOM), Mr. Noriaki Okamura(KONAMI), Mr. Toru Kurakata(TECMO). Masters of ceremony were Mr. Masaaki Tsukada(MEDIA WORKS;Chief Editor), and Ms. Yuko Anai(TV personality). The participants discussed appealing points of Playstation 2 and express the hopes of creating new games. They also pointed out that an ability to make good use of the idea of other fields is needed for game creators from now on. Some visitors' keen questions astonished the creators.
"Having the hardware with limitless possibility, an ability to integrate various ideas is coming more important."
Kids Corner was established for kids and families, with 7 exhibitors. A lot of kids were enjoying the games and events arranged by the exhibitors.
Kids enjoyed mini games at Kids Corner.
At PC corner network games were very popular, let alone hard action games and racing games which were created by making use of delicate screen display. Simulation games were typical PC games formerly. Network play functions were added to the simulation games to improve their performance.
Try the network play at the PC corner
The other booths were also very popular. At sales corner, merchandises related to video games and premium goods were available. At Game School Corner and Publishers Corner, various information was available.
At Game School Corner, Demonstration of Motion Capture
"Japan Entertainment Software Awards" is given to the most excellent software selected among computer entertainment software which was put on sale in the year before. The digest film of the prize-giving ceremony ( held on March 30th at The Tokyo International Foundation) was put on the screen at the event stage in the morning of April 2nd.
Recording video of the prize-giving ceremony on the screen
"Tokyo Game Show 2000 Spring" greatly excited visitors and made a deep impression on them during the session. On April 2nd, 17:00p.m., the show ended successfully.
With the development of technology, the world is changing. In the computer entertainment industry, it is necessary to anticipate the changes and take a turn for the better. The visitors could have feel the future of computer entertainment software and the dreams of exhibitors through the networking of digital entertainment from Tokyo to the world.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon at "Tokyo Game Show 2000 Autumn," which will be this century's last.
