This year Taiwan-based Ba Tong Wu Edutainment Co., Ltd. was invited to go to Japan to participate in a grand event of 2016, which was jointly organized by Japanese slot and pachinko game powerhouses, Universal and Sammy.  The Universal Carnival held by the largest company in Japan’s game machine industry, Universal Corporation, and the Sammy Festival held by SAMMY Corporation, both have been regarded as important annual grand events by the game industry of Japan.  This year the two companies cooperated for the first time to jointly organize the Universal Carnival-Sammy Festival, which has sparked widespread discussion in the industry.

The chronological game exhibition area displays the slot and pachinko games previously released by Universal and Sammy as well as their highly anticipated masterpieces of the year.

The event kicked off on July 24, 2016 at the Tokyo Big Sight.  At the entrance to the Sammy exhibition area, there was a classic life-size titanic black horse, which is the famous horse “Black King” in the “Fist of the North Star”.  The Sammy exhibition area not only provided a good number of soon-to-be-released games for visitors to try but also presented games still in development.  At the same time, the on-site host prepared many small games to promote interaction with visitors.

For the Universal exhibition area, “Another God Hades” was the representative work at the entrance.  Besides a series of famous games released in the past, this exhibition area also accommodated games which will soon be launched and are still in development, like “Hanabi Zekkei”, “Another God Hades 2” and “The God of the Sea Poseidon”.  At the stage area, many famous Japanese slot and pachinko television presenters and writers of all major magazines were invited to participate in the company’s activity and a multitude of related interactive games were also arranged to create an engaging atmosphere. (2016/11, No. 148GTI)