Capcom educates kids on the video game industry

By Spencer . May 9, 2007 . 5:19am

Capcom has an interesting idea, which may help shine light on breaking into the video game business at an early age. They are working with Gakken to publish “Secrets of the Video Games”, a comic book that explains the ins and outs of the video game industry. Secrets of the Video Games is part of Gakken’s understanding series, which are used as supplemental teaching materials in elementary schools. The book has information about different video game careers, the process of developing games and how competitive Japan is in the video game industry. Secrets of the Video Games will be distributed to 24,000 elementary schools and 2,700 public libraries across Japan. While Capcom has no plans to release this in North America you can see some pictures of the book past the break.

TAGS: Business, Capcom

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4 Responses to “Capcom educates kids on the video game industry”

Aoshi00 Says:
May 9th, 2007 at 6:12 am

Definitely interested if it’s ever up for bids on ebay

the_importer Says:
May 9th, 2007 at 5:57 pm

I’ll resume it for you:

Step 1: Make a popular game and sale millions of copies.

Step 2: When you need more cash in order to make big games, take that last very popular title, add a couple of bells and whistles and put it back on the market for the fanboys to purchase.

Aoshi00 Says:
May 9th, 2007 at 6:05 pm

Actually this is exactly the book we need to teach parents over here that games don’t breed mass murderers

But yes, I’m curious in how they put the gaming business in layman’s terms so that grade school kids would understand. Who knows, maybe 20 years from now gaming staffs would quote this as their inspiration.

matty Says:
May 9th, 2007 at 8:15 pm

Reminds me of those Ricky the rain-drop programs they did at my grade school

In Japan, instead of saving water it’s saving the gaming industry