* 1980 – Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.

The Commodore Amiga 1200 computer and the Amiga CD32 games console used the cost-reduced 68EC020 ; the Namco System 22 arcade board has also used this processor.

* Gridrunner iOS ( iPod Touch / iPhone 3GS / iPad / iPhone 4 / iPhone 4S / Mac ) ( Represents arcade games of Namco System 86 era ).

Time Crisis is a light gun shooter arcade game released by Namco in 1995.

One of the last successful electro-mechanical arcade games was F-1, a racing game developed by Namco and distributed by Atari in 1976 ; the game was shown in the films Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ) and Midnight Madness ( 1980 ), as was Sega's Jet Rocket in the latter film.

is an arcade game developed by Namco

Sega and Namco are two of the largest manufacturers of these types of arcade games.

* Navarone ( arcade game )-an arcade video game by Namco, loosely inspired by the film

According to Destructoid, the gameplay of Super Smash Bros. was inspired by The Outfoxies, a 1994 arcade game by Namco.

is a 3D arcade fighting game developed by the team Project Soul and published by Namco.

Pac-Man is a popular 1980 arcade game by Namco and the name of its titular character.

Namco was a front-runner during the Golden age of arcade video games.

Later expanding into the amusement park business, Sennichimae Plabo was opened in Osaka, featuring a new concept of large-scale arcade amusement, and Namco Wonder Eggs, a theme park, was opened in Tokyo.

The Namco Ltd. name was retained by its Japanese arcade management division, and now operates as part of Namco Bandai's Amusement Facility SBU.

In 1977, Namco launched its first international arcade subsidiary, Namco Enterprises Asia Ltd., in Hong Kong.

Namco purchased the arcade operations of Atari Games in 1990, renaming it Namco Operations Inc. With the purchase, Namco began its arcade management business in the United States.

In 1993, Namco purchased the Aladdin's Castle arcade chain from Bally and merged it with Namco Operations to form Namco Cybertainment Inc.

Category: Namco System 22 games

Following Rare's departure from the series, Nintendo co-produced a trilogy of rhythm games with Namco for the Nintendo GameCube known as the Donkey Konga series, which were based on Namco's own Taiko: Drum Master, though only two of the series ' games made it to America.

Sega started using " Tuning cards " in games such as the Initial D series of games allowing the customer to save game data on a card vended from the game ; Namco copied the idea with the Maximum Tune series.

Namco employed an H8 / 3002 as a sound processor for various games it made in the late 1990s: notably those using its System 12 architecture.

Namco and Capcom agreed to create crossover games of the Tekken and Street Fighter franchises, Street Fighter X Tekken ( released in 2012 ) and Tekken X Street Fighter ( currently in development ).

Some of Tekken characters have been featured as guest characters in other video games, such as Digimon World Re: Digitize, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, Pac-Man Fever, Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2, Soulcalibur II, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Ridge Racer 6 and Urban Reign, as well as in some crossover role-playing video games, including Cross Edge, Namco × Capcom and the upcoming Project X Zone.

At the time, games were not released in the U. S. under the Namco label.

Namco America existed mainly to license Namco's games to companies such as Atari and Midway Games for distribution in the U. S.

Back in Japan, Namco still held distribution rights for Atari's games, and Nakamura refused to sell them to other arcades.

* List of Namco games

* Namco TV games

In 1993, Namco struck back with Ridge Racer, and thus began the polygonal war of driving games.

In 1990, Philip Morris, the tobacco conglomerate, filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement against Namco, Atari Games ( the Final Lap distributor in the U. S .) and Sega on behalf of their Super Monaco GP game because both of these games featured a Marlboro billboard, which was found on the real-life Suzuka and Monaco tracks.

Category: Namco arcade games

is a series of science fiction video games developed by Monolith Soft and published by Namco Bandai.

Episode IV, Episode V, Episode VI and two games being developed for an unknown platform known as Xenosaga: Frontier and Xenosaga: Exceed were all summarily cancelled when Namco pulled the plug on the series.

Is there a chance that Namco Bandai will make more games based on the Xenosaga universe ( RPG or not )?

Namco Bandai has purchased a 34 % stake in Atari Europe on May 14, 2009, paving the way for its acquisition from Infogrames.

Originally released in arcades in 1998, it ran on the Namco System 12 hardware.

Namco held a grand opening on May 26, 2012 which featured a tournament for visitors.

Together with Monolith Soft, tri-Crescendo started working on Baten Kaitos ; Namco provided the financial backing.

Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies ' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006.

Nakajima was promoted to vice president in 1978, and on his recommendation Namco opened a subsidiary, Namco America, in the United States.

From then on, the part of the company that was most closely associated with the Namco label would become Namco Bandai Games.

The Namco Bandai merger had little effect on the Namco Cybertainment subsidiary, which continues its original mission of operating arcades in the U. S, although most of its mall based arcades are now closed.

Episode III was released in Japan on July 6, 2006 and in North America on August 29, 2006 by Namco Bandai.

: Namco Bandai: Yes, the Xenosaga universe is a grand concept and the number of ways we can think of to expand on this is infinite.

However translation of further chapters has been put on indefinite hold due to the announcement by Namco USA that the Missing Year will be translated and posted up on the Official English Xenosaga III site.

In 2012, Complex included " Capcom vs. Namco " on the list of fighting game crossovers they would like to see the most ( at number five ), featuring KOS-MOS on the Namco side.