(News by White-haired Journalist)

This year’s Tokyo Game Show garnered the biggest crowd, having a total of 193,040 visitors from its 4 day run, breaking the record of TGS ’06’s 192,411 visitors and overtaking Leipzig ’07’s game conference that garnered a close total of 185,000. It also superseded all of the visitor records since TGS ‘98.

The organizers of this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association, plans that the TGS will be back at Chiba prefecture’s Makuhari Messe Convention Center next year and will start on October 9 or 10.

(Bomber Man: Oh yeah! Hu da bomb?!)

Here’s the breakdown of visitors from TGS ‘98-’07 from GameSpot:

TGS 2007
Day 1* - 29,783
Day 2** - 32,390
Day 3 - 64,795 (11,829 children)
Day 4 - 66,072 (15,347 children)
Total: 193,040

TGS 2006
Day 1** - 39,645
Day 2 - 84,823 (12,246 children)
Day 3 - 67,943 (10,637 children)
Total: 192,411

Total visitors for previous years:
2005 - 176,056
2004 - 160,096
2003 - 150,089
2002 - 134,042
2001 Fall - 129,626
2001 Spring - 118,080
2000 Fall - 137,400
2000 Spring - 131,708
1999 Fall - 163,866
1999 Spring - 163,448
1998 Fall - 156,455
1998 Spring - 147,913
*Press only
**Press and invitation only

(Source: GameSpot)

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