Namco Ltd. (株式会社ナムコ, Kabushiki Kaisha Namuko), is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. The company is most famous for creating Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game in history. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games in March 2006.
Namco continues to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings, w...
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Namco Ltd. (株式会社ナムコ, Kabushiki Kaisha Namuko), is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. The company is most famous for creating Pac-Man, the best-selling arcade game in history. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games in March 2006.
Namco continues to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings, with its remaining assets in video arcades and amusement parks located in Japan. Its regional subsidiaries also continue similar operations overseas.
Masaya Nakamura founded the company as Nakamura Manufacturing in 1955. Based in Tokyo, the company started out by running children's rides on the roof of a department store in Yokohama. The business eventually expanded throughout the Tokyo area. Nakamura Manufacturing was reorganized in 1958 and underwent a slight name change to Nakamura Manufacturing Co., which would later form the acronym Namco....
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