Front Fareast Industrial Corporation
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Front Fareast Industrial Corporation is a Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
ese company, sometimes incorrectly called Far Front East, established in 1983, which sprouted during the early stages of the information industry
Information industry
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in Taiwan. During that time, Acer
Acer (company)
Acer Incorporated is a multinational information technology and electronics corporation headquartered in Xizhi, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Acer's products include desktop and laptop PCs, tablet computers, servers, storage devices, displays, smartphones and peripherals...
developed a "Micro Professor Family-Computer", and Front Fareast became its official distributor
Distributor
A distributor is a device in the ignition system of an internal combustion engine that routes high voltage from the ignition coil to the spark plugs in the correct firing order. The first reliable battery operated ignition was developed by Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. and introduced in the...
. In 1984, Front Fareast became the official game developer for it, which as a result, Front Fareast had developed several gaming applications for the Micro Professor Family-Computer. In 1996, Front transformed to a 3D
3D computer graphics
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/VR
Virtual reality
Virtual reality , also known as virtuality, is a term that applies to computer-simulated environments that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds...
entertainment
Entertainment
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developer. In the beginning of 1998, the company published "Final Racing", its first international 3D/VR project, into the market
Market
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. In January 2000, Front Fareast Industrial Corporation released Cyber Groove
Cyber Groove
Cyber Groove is a Taiwanese dancing game, by Front Fareast Industrial Corporation, played on a Microsoft Windows computer. It was released on September 30, 2000, and can be played on either the keyboard or a dance pad.-Game play:...
, the first interactive dancing game released for the PC.