Good News in History, June 1

Good News in History, June 1
Good News in History, June 1 70 years ago today, Namco Limited, maker of the most popular and successful arcade game systems in history was founded. With titles like Pac-Man, Tekken, Ridge-Racer, and Galaga, Namco is broadly considered to have laid the foundations for most video gaming for all time. Today, Namco no longer exists as such. It merged with the toy maker and animation studios Bandai to create Bandai Namco Entertainment. READ some milestones in the company’s history…  (1955) Namco’s headquarters before the company’s takeover – creidt Doricono CC BY-SA 3.0, In 1974, Namco was able to purchase the failing Japanese subsidiary of the American arcade game company Atari for a cut-rate offer that catapulted Namco to the pre-eminent position in Japanese arcades. In 1980, Pac-Man was released, and broke through the popularity of gamers and emerged into popular culture at large, due to its abstract characters and challenging simplicity. Galaxia, another Namco release shortly before, is hi…