Bandai Namco Entertainment: From Tekken & Ridge Raber: 3D Story in Video Format

Which classics do you associate with the name Namco? Early Pac-Man and Galaxian? Or maybe Ridge Racers and Tekken from the 90s? In a new video feature, the Japanese developer devotes himself to his early 3D games…

Kabushiki-gaisha Namuko (short for: Nakamura Amusement Machine Manufacturing Company), founded by Masaya Nakamura in the 1950s (!), is one of the really big Japanese manufacturers. Namco was already present shortly after the video game big bang, with Pac-Man they created a world-class mascot as early as 1980, which every gamer should be familiar with to this day. In the mid-1990s, the company that Nintendo fans had long known as Namcot was there again as the games made the leap into the third dimension, first on the arcade and soon after on Sony’s PlayStation – Ridge Racer and Tekken are inseparable from the success story interwoven with the first PlayStation.

From Winning Run to Tekken 4

The publisher, who merged with the toy giant Bandai in 2005 and has since operated as Bandai Namco, dedicates an exciting new video to that exciting era on its Japanese YouTube channel. You can see it below and if you don’t speak Japanese, you should activate the subtitles with automatic translation into German. The result isn’t pretty, but it’s enough to understand Namco’s early days in 3D…