Namco

Founded: 1955-06-01

Defunct: 2006-03-31

T-series code: T-14

Merged with: Bandai (2005)

Headquarters:

Ohta, Tokyo, Japan

2006-03-31

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Namco (ナムコ) was a Japanese company best know for their arcade classics such as Pac-Man.

The company suffered financial issues between the late 1990s and early 2000s due to the struggling Japanese economy and diminishing arcade market, which led to the company merging with Bandai in 2005 to become Bandai Namco Holdings, though still continued to publish games until 2006, when it was merged with Bandai's game division to form Bandai Namco Games, while the company's amusement operations were reorganized into a new entity under the Namco name which was renamed to Bandai Namco Amusement in 2017 following a group restructuring, which led to the amusement development division of BNEI being transferred to the BNHD incarnation of Namco. Namco also distributed their own Sega NAOMI and Sega Chihiro systems and was one of the three Triforce partners (along with Sega and Nintendo).

Company

Namco published a number of their console titles in North America through Namco Hometek, the home console game division of Namco-America. Announcements for the end of repairs for some of their arcade games were sent out in July 2015^[1], as well as on August 2, 2017^[2] and October 2, 2017.^[3] In Europe and Australia, Namco previously licensed out their console titles to other publishers and distributors as the company's Namco Europe division lacked a in-house publishing branch.