Namco

Namco
Founded	June 1, 1955
Headquarters	Japan
Website	http://www.namco.co.jp/
Other Names	Namcot Namco, Ltd. Game Studio Piccari Team Knight Games

Namco (known as Namcot in Japan) 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 their games from 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.

• Games developed by Namco.
• Games published by Namco.

Composers

• Ayako Saso
• E. Murakami
• Fukashi Ohmorita
• Haruhisa Udagawa
• Haruomi Hosono
• Hiroki Aoyagi
• Hiromi Shibano
• Hiroyuki Kawada
• Isayan
• Junichi Mizutari
• Junko Ozawa
• K. Okuda
• Masakatsu Maekawa
• Masanobu Endo
• Motoi Sakuraba
• Naoki Higashio
• Neil Sedaka
• Norio Nakagata
• Nobuyuki Ohnogi
• Polygome
• Shinji Hosoe
• Shinji Tamura
• Shoichi Fukatani
• Takeru Hikono
• Y. Ishida
• Yoshinori Kawamoto
• Yoshito Tomuro
• Yuriko Keino

Links

• Official: [1]
• Masanobu Endoh's Twitter: [2]
• Development of Metro-Cross (Japanese): [3]
• Development of Xevious NES (Japanese): [4]