Show me anything Namco (pre Bandai)

tomjonjon

So anything before 2006

Nemoide

From my collection: two tin Pac-Man lunchboxes and trading card pac(k)s. The more modern one was from when I was in high school: I used to go to the local Cyberstation arcade all the time and collect tickets. Before I went away to college, I turned in all the tickets and got every fun piece of junk they had, including that lunchbox! (Of course I still didn’t have tickets enough to get a TV or a boombox or anything, but I was ticket-rich)

And while we’re at it let’s appreciate the super-rad Japanese MD box art for Burning Force:

treefroggy

Don’t get me started. I love namco!

tomjonjon

treefroggy Thats the idea!

seasons

fridgeboy

seasons Oh man this post inspired me to watch a playthrough of this game while working this morning. I played this on the TG16 when I was way too young and it scared the hell out of me. It really kind of holds up!

esper

ever since I took over editing i’ve considered putting in a tiny sound cue when Jaffe says my name at the end of the show: it would be klonoa’s waHOO noise.

i love klonoa. that game is breezy and whimsical and simple as a Kirby.

whatsarobot

esper requesting permission to steal and make liberal use of the phrase “simple as a Kirby”

Geoff

tomjonjon

Geoff that is some galactic dancin’!

hellomrkearns

NG Namco Community Magazine
https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Namco+Community+Magazine%22&sort=date

treefroggy

saw this poster in akiba BEEP in 2017. I love Toy Pop, one of my 5 ps1 games growing up was Namco Museum Vol. 1 and this was the first thing that came to mind that would allow me to bring up Namco Museum for Playstation 1 being amazing.

JJSignal

Namco commercials were really good.

I love all the Haruomi Hosono ones.

I think Hosono might have done the music for these commercials? I feel like I’ve heard them in one of his albums.

I actually have a print ad of this one

Also a big fan of Namco’s early robotics efforts. Love everything about Robot Band PiC PaC!

Their graphic design/character design made me think of them as sort of a Sanrio of games.

EDIT:

Forgot to post this despite Hosono posting!

This song is used liberally in the J-Drama/Comedy(?) No Continue Kid. I love it, and I love that they use it.

bodydouble

Hosono’s whimsical 1984 arrangements of Namco arcade hits

treefroggy

there are so many good Sexy Synthesizer tracks that are just all out namco-blast your brain good times. Especially the katamari ones, of which there are many. I’ve edited this post so many times trying to pick just one so as not to flood the thread.

billy

I had to drive a couple of hours in heavy snow last night. The falling snow in my headlights, in what was otherwise total darkness, reminded me of how lights looked in R4 so I put on the soundtrack (full playlist here) and had a fun drive.

hellomrkearns

billy nice. You might like this

KennyL

hellojed

Namco made a real life version of the car from Ridge Racer PSP from an NSX and it subsequently disappeared. I think about it frequently

hellomrkearns

Minoru Suzuki doing mocap for Tekken 3. He’s credited in the series as recently as Tekken 7.
https://bandainamco-am.co.jp/am/vg/tekken3/suzuki.php

mosesplan

The virtual museums in Namco Museum Vol. 4 and 5 were absolutely mindblowing. I haven’t played an old game collection since that managed to instill the same sense of wonder and reverence for its source material.

Syzygy

As many compilations as they put out they’re rarely just cheap cash grabs. I’m glad to have Pac-Man Museum on Steam, still the only official way ever released to play the original Pac-Man Championship Edition on PC and the only home port of Pac-Man Battle Royale at all; the collection has since been delisted presumably because of its tie-ins to a defunct TV series.