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Namco and Bandai
It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings.
At a July 5, 2012 press conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of JoJo, Araki himself announced JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle, produced by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai Namco Games, it will be released for the PlayStation 3.
In addition, Tecmo Koei and Namco Bandai have included the series in " Dynasty Warriors: Gundam " franchise ever since the first one came out in 2007, and it's still going strong up to this point.
On January 19, 2012, Namco Bandai released a port of Soulcalibur for Apple's iOS platform.
In 2007, Namco Bandai Games announced that the Power Pad would see a reappearance for the Wii.
is a fighting game franchise created, developed and published by Namco ( later Namco Bandai Games ).
In May 2012, Namco Bandai opened Tekken Museum in Osaka, Japan.
In 2005, Konami was the sixth largest game developer in Japan after Nintendo, Square Enix, Capcom, Sega Sammy, and Namco Bandai.
After the merger with game developer and amusement facility operator Namco, Bandai Co., Ltd. is now under the management of Namco Bandai Holdings and a member of Bandai Namco Group.
Before the formation of Namco Bandai Holdings, Bandai had many subsidiaries.
On March 31, 2006, it was merged into Namco Ltd. and Namco Ltd. was renamed Namco Bandai Games Inc.
* The Fast and the Furious ( Published as Namco Bandai Games and distributed by Universal Interactive )

Namco and has
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.
Consequently, Namco has been working since Soulcalibur to gradually separate the individual styles of the characters in order to make each one unique.
In its July 1989 issue, Electronic Gaming Monthly reported that " Namco has a machine comparable to the Super Famicom almost completed, but is unsure which way to market it with so many other game machines already in the marketplace.
With its Tekken and Soul franchises, Namco has been dominating the 3D fighting game market.
Since this statement, however, Namco Bandai has sold 80 % of Monolith Soft's shares to Nintendo.
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.
Namco itself owns the copyright for the actual game, and has the rights to use the trademark.
Galaxian has also been released as part of the Namco Museum series of collections across several platforms:
The Galaxian flagship ( also called the Galboss ) has made numerous cameo appearances in other Namco games ( like the Special Flag from Rally-X ) and would also go on to become a recurring item in other games ).
She has also been featured in other products licensed by Namco, including the first and sixth wave of Namco Gals gashapon.
More recently, there has been a collaboration between Capcom and Namco, which will result in the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter.
Galaga has also been released as part of the Namco Museum series of collections across several platforms:
Galaga Arrangement has subsequently been published as part of the Namco Museum compilation on several home video game consoles.
Namco Bandai later revealed working on a new Ace Combat title for the Nintendo 3DS, which has been revealed to be Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy.
It is a different game entirely from Namco Classic Collection Volume 2s Dig Dug Arrangement but still has the concept of being an updated variant of Dig Dug by having new graphics, obstacles, enemies, boss battles, power-ups, etc.
Although Namco has officially given the character of the original Dig Dug the name Dig Dug, in other games where he makes an appearance, the protagonist goes by the name Taizo Hori ( in Japanese order, HORI Taizo ), and is the father of Susumu Hori, the main character in the Mr. Driller series.
Dig Dug has been included on most Namco Museum compilations, and it's one of the three bonus games in the Wii and Nintendo 3DS versions of Pac-Man Party.
The character Pooka has many cameos in Namco games, most often as an enemy in Namco games such as the Pac-Man World series.
Tron Bonne is a playable character in Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Namco X Capcom, and Project X Zone, with Servbots as a partner character ; she has also starred in her own spinoff game, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne.
The game has also been included in a number of classic arcade game compilations for consoles and PC, including Namco Museum Volume 2 for the original PlayStation in 1996, Microsoft Revenge of Arcade for PC in 1998, Namco Museum 50th Anniversary for Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and PC in 2005 ( The game did not appear in the scaled-down Game Boy Advance version of Namco Museum 50th Anniversary.

Namco and purchased
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.
Also in the late 1990s, Namco acquired Diamond Jim's and in the early part of the new century purchased Pocket Change America Inc.
It was purchased by and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings in March 2006.

Namco and %
On May 1, 2007 Namco sold the rest of the 16 % of shares, making Monolith Soft one of Nintendo's first-party developers.
As of May 6, 2007, Nintendo owns controlling interest in the company after Namco Bandai sold 80 % of its 96 % stake in Monolith Soft to Nintendo.
In 2009, Namco Bandai Holdings gained a controlling share of D3 and currently owns 95 % of its stock.

Namco and Atari
Realizing that Atari had firm support from Namco ( the creators of Pac-Man and many other hits ), Coleco entered into contracts with companies such as Sega, Konami, and Universal.
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.
Namco America existed mainly to license Namco's games to companies such as Atari and Midway Games for distribution in the U. S.
Namco America acquired a controlling interest in Atari Games for $ 10 million, against the advice of their accountants at Price Waterhouse.
Nakajima grew increasingly frustrated with his boss, and in 1987 the two arrived at a means to part ways: Namco would sell part of its interest in Atari Games to Nakajima and the Atari Games employees, and the rest back to Warner.
Nakajima and Wood then resigned from Namco to head Atari Games.
In 1985, the controlling interest of Atari Games was sold to Namco ( a company with strong past ties to Atari Inc .), who soon lost interest in operating an American subsidiary.
The most influential racing game was released in 1982: Pole Position, developed by Namco and published by Atari in North America.
was licensed to Namco, who in turn licensed it to Atari in America, thus the game is considered a successor to Pole Position II.
Final Lap is a racing video game produced by Namco, and released by Atari Games for the United States in 1987.
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.
Most of the top publishers in the gaming world ( or their American subsidiaries ) are members of ESA, including Atari, Capcom, Disney Interactive Studios, Eidos Interactive, Electronic Arts, Konami, Microsoft, Midway Games, Namco Bandai Games, Nintendo, Sega, Sony Computer Entertainment, Square Enix, Take-Two Interactive, THQ, Ubisoft and WildTangent.
Prior to the division between arcade-style racing and sim racing, the earliest attempts at providing driving simulation experiences were arcade racing video games, dating back to Pole Position, a 1982 arcade game developed by Namco, which the game's publisher Atari publicized for its " unbelievable driving realism " in providing a Formula 1 experience behind a racing wheel at the time.
TX-1, developed by Tatsumi in 1983, was licensed to Namco, who in turn licensed it to Atari in America, thus the game is considered a successor to Pole Position II.
The most successful arcade game companies of this era included Taito ( which ushered in the golden age with the shooter game Space Invaders and produced other successful arcade action games such as Gun Fight and Jungle King ), Namco ( the Japanese company that created Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position and Dig Dug ) and Atari ( the company that introduced video games into arcades with Computer Space and Pong, and later produced Asteroids ).
Though its use of 3D polygonal graphics was predated by arcade rivals Namco ( Winning Run in 1988 ) and Atari ( Hard Drivin ' in 1989 ), Virtua Racing had vastly improved visuals in terms of polygon count, frame rate, and overall scene complexity, which all contributed to a greater sense of immersion.
Some models are collections of ports of games by companies such as Atari and Namco, while others are collections of original games.
* Namco acquires the Japanese division of Atari, Inc. and formally enters the video arcade game market.
It was licensed to Namco, who in turn licensed it to Atari for release in the United States, thus the game is considered a successor to Pole Position II.

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