The Namco Historian
@namcohistory
Fan page dedicated to Japanese game developer Namco posting history, news, and more. Not affiliated with Bandai Namco. www.namcohistory.com
Dempa Microcomputer Software paper bags featuring Namco characters
Segment documenting the making of Metro-Cross including the planning, design, programming, music, and testing stages. Source: 8BitRetroGamer on YouTube
NEWS: Namco Game Selection Summer Market, a pop-up store with merchandise featuring classic Namco properties and character meet and greets, is at Hakuhinkan Toy Park in Tokyo from July 11 to August 6. Read more: home.ginza.kokosil.net/en/archives/...
America turns 250 today. Happy Fourth of July to those celebrating! 🇺🇸 Source: Namco Museum Vol. 3
Promotional Pac-Cat Renders (Pac-Man World) Source: archive.gamehistory.org/folder/6728f...
Coverage of Pac-Man VR from the British TV show GamesMaster. Pac-Man VR was an early virtual reality game developed by Virtuality using Pac-Man characters and elements licensed from Namco. Video source: jeuxvideoetdesbas on YouTube
NEWS: BeXide’s NAMCO LEGENDARY Mountains, a puzzle game featuring classic Namco characters, is now available for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC (via Steam).
NEWS: Tekken is available from Arcade Archives for Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Learn more: www.arcadearchives.com/en/title/aca...
Namco published only three games for the Nintendo 64: Namco Museum 64, Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness, and the Japan-exclusive Famista 64. Ridge Racer 64 was developed and published by Nintendo, using a license from Namco.
Arcade Classics for Philips CD-i. The collection included Galaxian, Galaga, and Ms. Pac-Man.
Happy Father’s Day! 🐭 North American Mappy-Land box art (1989)
Toy Story 5 comes out today. The original Toy Story was covered in the spring 1996 issue of Namco’s Nours magazine. You can find the issue archived here: archive.org/details/nour...
Today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day, a holiday that Taizo Hori from Dig Dug celebrates every day!
Tinkle Pit ending (end credits, high score input, and game over screen) featuring several Namco character cameo appearances.
Illustration of Minky Momo playing Xevious as seen in the in Game Freak magazine (1983). Illustration by Ken Sugimori, Pokémon character designer.
The newest Namco History blog post goes over the history and legacy of Namco’s Computer Graphics Division and its predecessor, Japan Computer Graphics Lab. blog.namcohistory.com/2026/06/08/n...
Xevious animated short film made by the Namco Computer Graphics Division. The short was shown at the 1989 National Computer Graphics Association Conference in the U.S. Video source: wadelyjp on YouTube
Nakamura Seisakusho, later known as Namco, was founded on this day in 1955 by Japanese businessman Masaya Nakamura. The first product the company made was a wooden mechanical horse ride. The rides were installed at department stores.
The Namco History blog is up with its first post about Namco’s animatronic band PiCPAC. blog.namcohistory.com/2026/05/31/r...
Namco’s Mappy robot navigating a maze at a 1982 robot fair in Japan. Source: Film Archive of Japan on YouTube
NEWS: Ace Driver is available from Arcade Archives for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PS5, PS4, and Xbox Series X|S. Learn more: www.arcadearchives.com/en/title/aca...
International box art for Pac-Man on Game Boy (1991). Illustrated by Greg Martin.
I got the first game in the PlayStation Namco Museum series back when I was 11 years old. Now at age 32, I completed collecting the series with the Japan-exclusive Namco Museum Encore.
I recently added the Japan-exclusive Namco Museum Encore to my collection. Unlike the other five PlayStation Namco Museum games (with covers and discs spelling out “NAMCO”), Encore was never released for retail in the United States.
Introductory page of a feature celebrating Pac-Man’s 20th anniversary from the November 1999 issue of NOURS magazine.