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Japanese firm to sell Taiwan bullet train video game

According to a recent report on an English-language website in Japan, a Japanese video game company has plans to release a high-speed train simulation game based on Taiwan’s new bullet train. The game will simulate Taiwan’s bullet train service that connects Taipei with Kaohsiung. The Japanese company, Ongakukan, said the game is designed for use with Sony’s PlayStation 3 and will be released in July.

The Mainichi Shimbun, a major Japanese daily with an English-language website, reported that the new software reproduces camera footage showing scenery from a Taiwan HSR driver’s seat. The company worked with train officials in Taipei to shoot the footage, according to sources.

In addition to simulated scenes from the driver’s front window along the HSR route, the new game also features sightseeing and picnic spots at HSR stations and on the bullet train route.

There’s music, too, to accompany the Taiwan HSR simulator game, according to Ongakukan chairman Minoru Mukaiya, who produced the music himself. Mukaiya, who has visited Taiwan on several occasions and traveled on the HSR here, is a member of Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea.

“I want to introduce the brilliance of Japan’s bullet train technology in video games as well,” Mukaiya told reporters in Tokyo last month, when announcing his video game tie-up with Taiwan’s bullet train, which was built using Japanese technology.

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