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  • Bandai Namco: ‘Father of Pac-Man’ Masaya Nakamura dies

    01/30/2017 10:25:31 AM PST · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    www.asahi.com ^ | January 30, 2017 at 18:00 JST | Staff
    The Japanese games company Bandai Namco says Masaya Nakamura, the "Father of Pac-Man" who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died at age 91. Nakamura, who died on Jan. 22, held an honorary position at Bandai Namco, formed in 2005 from a merger of two game companies. He founded Namco in 1955. Its beginnings were humble--just two mechanical horses on the rooftop of a department store. Pac-Man, designed by video game maker Toru Iwatani, went on sale in 1980. Guinness World Record has named it the world's most successful coin-operated arcade game. Bandai Namco...