Tokyo Game Show: Industry Day

September 2004

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 The best way to learn about your game is to watch someone play it!

 

 
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 The PSP stand was really something.

 

 

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 Girls carried the device, chained to their belts.

 

 
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 The marketing is solid: cross-cultural and hip. Oh right - it's Sony.

 

 
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 The eye toy games looked... like more eye toy games.

 

 
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 Wanda + Colossus looked dream-ish, like Ico. People seemed psyched by the clips.

 

 
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 Cowboys and 80's looks ruled the booth babe scene. The stormtroopers were a bit short.

 

 
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 Tantra - the RPG. Now that is genius!

 

 
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 Square held court with cocobos. Crowds were huge on the second (public) day.

 

 
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 The Sega booth was a huge yawn. MS had Halo 2 and ... racing with surround headgear.

 

 
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 DOA body pillows in stock, along with plenty of people for Justin to interview.

 

 
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 There is no carpet at this show. By lunchtime, sore feet give way to sore bums.

 

 
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 On the industry day, the crowd was mostly male.

 

 

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 Journalists snapped plenty of photos, but booth attendants seemed bored.

 

 
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Bandai (surprise!) rocked giant robots.

 

 
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Capcom's yellow rings were... glowy.

 

 

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 Alan was thrilled by the plush animals and RPG titles. Ok, that's a lie.

 

 
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I, however, was mesmerized by this disturbingly accomplished player.

 

 

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Generally, music and racing titles were tepid.

 

 
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 Generally, I was exhausted.

 

 
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 The Habbo Hotel booth was a good place to recover energy and enthusiasm.

 

 
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 Outside was also nice. What it lacked in carpet, it made up for in cigarette butts.

 

 
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 If you peeked under the rim of the center picture, you saw the tableaux on the right.

 

 
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Justin in some purloined glasses (the girl was cute).

 

 
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 Game Science at work. On the right, a soccer/mini-golf combo.

 

 
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 Mark found a great puzzle game as well. I wonder if G4 will report on his skillz?

 

 
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