Date Posted: May 18, 2002
Author: Lucas Pawelczyk

Sanriotown.com and Typhoon Games have announced that its developing the first Hello Kitty PC Game featuring 3D Hello Kitty playing with humans in a virtual reality soccer field. For those Hello Kitty fans out there, below is the offical press release:

Typhoon Games announces Hello Kitty Football Cup 2002
The First ever 3D Hello Kitty on PC!

Typhoon Games Limited and Sanrio Co. Limited proudly presents the first ever Hello Kitty PC game featuring the world famous Hello Kitty playing with humans in a virtual reality football field. It is the first time Hello Kitty is presented in 3D motion, playing football, dribbling and kicking the ball on the field.

The game has an elaborate Artificial Intelligence system for competitive players and also offers very high graphic and animation quality. Characters were created with over 2,000 polygons. Players are able to select the playing time and the weather conditions of the Stadium where the soccer will take place

The game offers three game modes, Friendly Match, Tournament and Multiplayer Match via LAN. Easily handle by keyboard control, joystick or game pad. The minimum requirements to run this game are Windows 95/98/2000/Me/XP, Direct v8.1, Pentium II 233 MHz, 3D accelerator graphics card with 8Mb RAM, 200 MB free disk space, 64 MB RAM, 8x CD-Rom, Soundcard compatible with DirectX v8.1

If you are interested in Hello Kitty Football Cup 2002 for Distribution, please contact our Director of Business Development, James Ho at james@typhoonservices.com or more information on the game, log onto http://www.typhoongames.com/ or http://www.sanriotown.com/

About Typhoon

Typhoon Games Ltd. is part of the Pan-Asian media company Typhoon Entertainment (Asia) Ltd. a leader in online and offline media. Typhoon Games Ltd. was founded in August 2001 in Hong Kong as a game developing and publishing company that recognizes the great potential of the gaming industry in Asia. We work with developers in Europe and North America to create and localize PC games for the Asian audiences. One of Typhoon Games' missions is to provide the best distribution channel for game developers to sell their games, and for gamers to play and review games in the most sound and technically advanced environment. Typhoon Games combine the highest technology with the most loyal communities of users to bring our audience the best gaming experience ever!

About Sanrio

Sanrio is a world-wide designer and distributor of character branded stationery, school supplies, gifts and accessories. They are best known for Hello Kitty which is their star character and also their corporate symbol. Sanrio Co., Ltd., is based in Tokyo with distribution channel throughout Japan and Southeast Asia, Americas, and Europe. Sanrio character merchandise is sold in over 4000 locations in America today.