Difference between revisions of "Namco"
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| Name = Namco | | Name = Namco | ||
| Founded = June 1, 1955 | | Founded = June 1, 1955 | ||
| Headquarters = Japan | | Headquarters = Japan | ||
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| Alias01 = Namcot | | Alias01 = Namcot | ||
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Namco merged with Bandai on March 31, 2006, and is now known as '''''Namco Bandai Games'''''. | Namco merged with Bandai on March 31, 2006, and is now known as '''''Namco Bandai Games'''''. | ||
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==Music Composition== | ==Music Composition== | ||
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* [[:Category: Games Developed By Namco|Games developed by Namco]]. | * [[:Category: Games Developed By Namco|Games developed by Namco]]. | ||
* [[:Category: Games Published By Namco|Games published by Namco]]. | * [[:Category: Games Published By Namco|Games published by Namco]]. | ||
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==Composers== | ==Composers== | ||
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| − | * | + | * [http://www.namcoamerica.com namcoamerica.com] - Official. |
| − | * | + | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco] - Wikipedia. |
| − | * | + | * [https://www.twitter.com/evezoo twitter.com/evezoo] - Masanobu Endoh's Twitter. |
| − | + | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzbnUHO9gSk youtube.com/watch?v=pzbnUHO9gSk] - Development of Metro-Cross (Japanese) | |
| + | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgZEcXkvBk youtube.com/watch?v=fpgZEcXkvBk] - Development of Xevious NES (Japanese). | ||
Revision as of 15:27, 3 June 2014
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| Founded | June 1, 1955 |
| Headquarters | Japan |
| Website | www.namco.co.jp |
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Namco (ナムコット株式会社 Namukotto Kabushikigaisha = Namcot Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese game developer and publisher. They are best known for their arcade classics such as the Pac-Man series. In 1981, Masanobu "Évezoō End" Endō joined and later formed a division of Namco called Game Studio. When they first started developing NES titles, the company did not yet have a division in the United States. Therefore, they licensed most of their games to Tengen, an American company which made unlicensed video games for the Nintendo NES.
Namco merged with Bandai on March 31, 2006, and is now known as Namco Bandai Games.
Contents
Music Composition
ARC
The sound engine for Namco's arcade games was programmed by various staff members, and Nobuyuki Ohnogi and the other composers wrote the music in hexadecimal. The sound chip was designed by someone named "Figar" Murata.
NES
Nobuyuki Ohnogi created a sound driver which was then rewritten by Fukashi Ohmorita to decrease the memory. The music was written with hex numbers in 6502 assembly. When Namco was porting their arcade games to the NES, Nobuyuki converted the arcade soundtracks to the NES until he left the company in 1985.
Composers
- Ayako Saso
- Bach Kobayashi
- E. Murakami
- Fukashi Ohmorita
- Fuken Tajima
- Haruhisa Udagawa
- Haruomi Hosono
- Hasson's Family
- Hiroki Aoyagi
- Hiromi Shibano
- Hiroyuki Kawada
- Junichi Mizutari
- Junko Ozawa
- K. Okuda
- Masakatsu Maekawa
- Masanobu Endo
- Motoi Sakuraba
- Naoki Higashio
- Neil Sedaka
- Norio Nakagata
- Nobuyuki Ohnogi
- Shinji Hosoe
- Shinji Tamura
- Shoichi Fukatani
- Takaki Horigome
- Takeru Hikono
- Y. Ishida
- Yoshinori Kawamoto
- Yoshito Tomuro
- Yuriko Keino
Links
- namcoamerica.com - Official.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco - Wikipedia.
- twitter.com/evezoo - Masanobu Endoh's Twitter.
- youtube.com/watch?v=pzbnUHO9gSk - Development of Metro-Cross (Japanese)
- youtube.com/watch?v=fpgZEcXkvBk - Development of Xevious NES (Japanese).
