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Having immediately sold 1-million copies, retailers have run out of stock of Enix’s (Headquarters: Shinjuku, Tokyo. President: Yasuhiro Fukushima) explosively popular Dragon Quest III. In response, the National Police Agency have requested an unusual order, asking that by the 17th, children should be able to buy the game with a reservation ticket without standing in line. Enix has accepted this order and nationwide, retailers are cooperating. However, police have also requested of retailers to improve how they conduct sales in order to prevent and stop truancy and overcrowding, making it the first time the agency has gotten involved in such a manner since the deaths caused by the 1976 year-end jumbo lottery. The Ministry of Education has also instructed each prefecture’s board of education that no student should skip school.
Retailing for ¥5,900, Dragon Quest III has turned out to be a super popular video game. In a business where selling 200,000 copies is considered to be a commercial success, since the series launched two years ago, total combined sales have reached 3.3-million.