BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
Moby ID: 1043
- Namco Limited - company name until April 2018
- Namcot - Trade name used in the development of console titles. (from 1983 to 1994)
- Nakamura Manufacturing - Original name (from 1955 to 1958)
- Nakamura Amusement Machine Manufacturing Company - Full name before abbreviating (from 1958 to 1970)
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Namco Ltd is a Japanese corporation best known as a video game developer and publisher. Its headquarters are located in Ōta, Tokyo.
The company was founded by Masaya Nakamura as Nakamura Manufacturing in 1955. The company started out by running children's rides on the roof of a department store in Yokohama. Nakamura Manufacturing was reorganized in 1958 and underwent a slight name change to Nakamura Manufacturing Co., which would later be used to form the acronym Namco.
In 1970 the company produced Racer, a coin-operated mechanical driving simulator. Namco's first electronic arcade game was Gee Bee (1978). The company's most popular creation of all times is Pac-man (1980). Other influential titles include Galaxian (1979), Dig-Dug (1982), Xevious (1982), Pole Position (1983), and others.
In September 2005, Namco merged with Bandai.
Credited on 431 Games from 1978 to 2023
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- May 2, 2005
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The company is acquired by Bandai Co. for about $1.7 billion. The merged companies will form Namco Bandai Holdings Inc., led by Bandai President Takeo Takasu and Namco Vice Chairman Kyushiro Takagi.
- April 1, 2005
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Shigeichi Ishimura (age 51), formerly head of Namco's mobile division, is to become the company's new president. Koichi Tashiro will now move into Ishimura-san's former role.
With the change, Namco's former president, Kyushiro Takagi (age 61), will step up to vice chairman of the company.
- March 18, 2004
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Namco announces that they have signed a publishing agreement with Flagship Studios.
- July 30, 2003
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Namco acquires the rights to make games based on the films Escape from New York and its sequel Escape from L.A.
- 1997
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Established Dream Pictures Studion Incorporated, a joint venture with Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. and Polygon Pictures, Inc., to produce digital contents for computer graphic-based films and entertainment software.
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Trivia +
Namco is short for Nakamura Manufacturing Company.
Location in January 1996:
Namco Limited
2-1-21, Yaguchi, Ota-Ku
Tokyo, Japan
Related Web Sites +
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BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
official site -
Namco WonderPage
Web page for the main Japanese Namco corporation.
Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 96 games with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
- 73 games with Namco Hometek Inc.
- 49 games with Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd.
- 46 games with HAMSTER Corporation
- 32 games with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc.
- 22 games with Dempa Shimbunsha
- 21 games with Namco Europe Limited
- 18 games with Tose Co., Ltd.
- 14 games with Now Production Co., Ltd.
- 14 games with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe S.A.S.
- 58 games with Shinichi Tsuruya
- 52 games with Shigeru Yokoyama
- 51 games with Garry Cole
- 51 games with Brian Schorr
- 50 games with Junko Ozawa
- 45 games with Daryle Tumacder
- 40 games with Takefumi Hyodo
- 40 games with Robert Ennis
- 39 games with Yasuhiro Noguchi
- 36 games with Toshiya Hara
Browse Games
- All games by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
- Published by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
- Developed by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
- Produced by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
- Ported by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
- Original Concept by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
- Distributed by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
- Localized by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
- Cutscenes by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
- Licensed by BANDAI NAMCO Amusement Inc.
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