| Title: | Nintendo Game Systems |
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| Created: | Tue Oct 20 1987 |
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Edition : 1508 Tuesday 16-Feb-1988 Circulation : 5610
VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH: [Mike Taylor, VNS Correspondent]
===================== [Nashua, NH, USA ]
Dragon Quest III does $32M in Opening Day Sales
NHK, Japan's national broadcasting company, today reported that
at one store alone 10,000 people lined up today to buy a newly
released *program*. People began lining up the yesterday, Feb 9,
to pick up the first copies of "Dragon Quest III", the latest
installment in a serial adventure program for Nintendo computers.
The newscast also reported that educational authorities were
shocked to find many students skipping classes in order to get
the program as soon as possible. Police warned 300 students
against skipping classes.
Estimated first day sales for Dragon Quest III are 1,000,000 ROM
cartridges. The first day price was 4,130 Yen, at 129 Yen/US$
that is a first day retail sale of 32,000,000 US$! One
commentator called it "softo-fever". [...]
The Japan Times (Wednesday, Feb 10, 1988) reported that 289
students were not warned by police against skipping classes,
but actually "taken into custody".
Also, at least one software-mugging was reported. A 14-year old
told police he was knocked off of his bike by three older boys
who took his "Dragon Quest III" and rode off on their bikes!
{contributed to RISKS-FORUM Digest V6.26 by Kevin Kelly but
attributed to the Information Conference by John Elemans}
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 59.1 | Zeal | OSKV01::HISATSUNE | Shinji Hisatsune/Osaka/SWS | Sun Feb 21 1988 03:50 | 12 |
> Dragon Quest III does $32M in Opening Day Sales > Estimated first day sales for Dragon Quest III are 1,000,000 ROM > cartridges. The first day price was 4,130 Yen, at 129 Yen/US$ > that is a first day retail sale of 32,000,000 US$! One > commentator called it "softo-fever". [...] Market price is 5,600 Yen, not 4,130 Yen. In U.S., Dragen Quest I, II, III will be released as Dragon Warrior I, II, III. This game have both of good aspect between Wizardry and Ultima. Very, very interesting. (My friend have holidays to do play this.) I can't get this cartrige, yet. | |||||
| 59.2 | Dragon Warrior ? | ELMO::MARCOUX | Mon Feb 22 1988 10:56 | 11 | |
.1 The teaser pictures and description in the FUN CLUB book had
me thinking that DRAGON WARRIOR was that style of game. Are there
any arcade sequences at all? The home computer games that
you mention really do not have any action/combat scenarios. They
are mostly decided by the the throw of the dice, as in D and D.
Would confrontations be decided the same way ???
Are there many other games in Japan that have such appeal ???
RONM
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| 59.3 | Fever | OSKV01::HISATSUNE | Shinji Hisatsune/Osaka/SWS | Thu Mar 10 1988 08:29 | 4 |
In Japan, CD, record, and cassettape of symphony of Dragon Quest I, II, III were released. And they are best sellers. Dragon Quest III was released 10-Feb-1988, but now I can't get it. | |||||
| 59.4 | What's new in games? | ELMO::MARCOUX | A bug,naaa,that's a feature | Mon Nov 14 1988 11:12 | 9 |
There hasn't been an entry in the subject recently, so here goes.
What new releases lately in Japan for the FAMICOM[NES] system. Has
there been a release of R-TYPE yet. This is now my favorite
shoot-m-up type game. Since this is a NINTENDO coinop[arcade] game
I'm hoping they have converted it fot the NES.
RONM
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