Tokyo Game Show, Pictorially Speaking: Pt.2

Time to load up with a second part of the Tokyo Game Show snaps. While you’ll find plenty of pictures of megabooths and their smiling attendants on other blogs covering the show, I’m generally trying to keep it more specific and quirkier for you good GSW readers. For better or worse:

It’s absolutely fascinating to me that the early U.S. RPG series from Sir-Tech, Wizardry, is still a cult favorite in the country, thanks to lots of Japanese-only instalments up to v.recently. Thus, this Wizardry T-shirt in the merchandising area.

Another sign of how gigantic Capcom’s Monster Hunter series is in Japan, this particular cutesy armored cat (!) was promoting a Monster Hunter CCG, I believe. Stories in Akihabara were littered with merchandising for the series, too

Although somewhat ignored by the press, the student section of TGS — essentially lots of game schools trying to get consumer day attendees to sign […]

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