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Chie and I went to the Tokyo Game Show today, it was awesome. Click the full entry link for all the pictures and my witty commentary.

First, we had to get there. Despite being named the Tokyo Game Show, it’s in Chiba Prefecture, which is far as hell away from the Tokyo (it took us about 2 hours to get there). When we got there, the geeks were everywhere:

It was disturbingly packed in there, and it was probably the noisiest environment I’ve ever been in. Every single booth had a massive sound system and every booth had an attendant with a fucking megaphone that was used to shout out um, Japanese things.

Bring on the cosplayers!

Halo 2 was there and playable, about 8 people playing in a deathmatch. It looked the same as the original Halo there, and didn’t do much for me. (Keep in mind I’m a cynical bastard). Also, strangely it was mostly foreigners in line to play it. Like lots of foreigners - I felt in place for the first time in months.

We stayed well away from these gentlemen:

The ATI booth….

Was suffering through a lot of envy when compared to the nVidia booth.

Atlus was showing off Stellar Deus, which is exactly like Phantom Brave, which is almost exactly like La Pucelle, which is exactly like Disgaea. I still love their games though.

More cosplay:

The Incredibles game from Disney and Pixar looked pretty good, and shown off on all the systems:

Old school, baby. Old school.

You too can apply for your official Star Wars Visa credit card:

I didn’t even know Excite made games. In fact, I still don’t care:

The X-Box booth was definitely overcompensating for something.

This is a flock of about 30 photographers swarmed around one poor booth girl. And none of them were leaving; they just kept taking rolls of film of her. Chie and I couldn’t figure out how she was different from the 700 other booth girls at the place.

More fun cosplay.

Again, cosplay. But this time I recognize the character.

This guy was fucked. I saw him and immediately knew I needed his picture, so I grabbed it. Then he starts screaming at me, “Appointment! Appointment! You need appointment for my picture!” We kept walking.

Though billed as being fun, this did not look fun:

The Metal Gear Solid 3 booth, with the voice actors talking. I snapped a picture of the game in progress and got in trouble for doing so. Then it turned out the picture was way over-exposed, so I lose.

Final Fantasy will have about 30 new sequels, prequels and movies in the next year.

And more games for mobile phones, with totally generic characters:

Kingdom Hearts II stuff.

The PSP, oh the PSP:

I took this photo and got in a lot of trouble (again). I’ve no idea why, but whatever. Let me tell you though, this device is incredible. It’s more elegant, slick and badass than I ever expected and nothing would keep me from buying one. And apparently it has 8 hours of battery life (though I won’t be betting on that one).

Capcom was showing off more Street Fighter vs. Popeye vs. the Thunderbirds. Sorry, that’s the best I could come up with.

Chevron 7 is locked:

And I’m spent. It was pretty awesome, though I’ve just realized I missed seeing the Nintendo DS. Anyways, it was still a lot of fun.