Show me anything Namco (pre Bandai)

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.

bankbank

Megapanel is one of my favorite mega drive games and a wonderful early effort on the system from Namco (well, Namcot)

it’s really the proto-tetris attack. I’m quite interested to see how the 2P vs game works, but I’ve never found anyone to play it against =[ I own the physical cart of this and it’s quite a treasure!

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Exvania is a super-rare arcade-only Bomberman clone with an interesting enough twist

You have not only your bomb but also a whip/chain (ala Castlevania? Ex…vania?) that allows you with 1 slap on a bomb to speed up the time before it explodes and a 2nd slap to explode it immediately. If I had a gamedev company that had an office, I would set up a dedicated 4P machine of this game.

treefroggy

bankbank I almost picked up a cib copy of megapanel for like $12 bucks last month. when I start buying mega drive imports in bulk maybe I’ll get it for real.

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!

seasons

fridgeboy i recently played it again on the pc engine mini. it holds up really well!

seasons

found out about this yesterday:

Given that Mappy runs on the same arcade hardware as Super Pac-Man, it’s worth noting how much more sophisticated its graphics and design are. Its character sprites are larger and more detailed than Namco’s earlier hit, while its levels, although constructed from broadly the same handful of tiles, are more varied. It’s interesting, too, that while Mappy came out in 1983, its characters were conceived much earlier. In fact, they weren’t designed as the cast of a video game, but as robots.

In early 80s, while Pac-Man was filling arcades, Namco had a sideline in robot-building. One of the company’s key personnel at the time was Shigeki Toyama, who was something of a renaissance man when it came to design. Toyama created some of the original concepts for the geometric ships in Namco’s hit shooter, Xevious, and designed several of the company’s arcade cabinets. He was also into robotics, and in 1980, he created a maze-navigating robot named Goro – a portly, grinning cat who looked just like the villain who we’d later see in Mappy. One year later, Toyama created another robot, Mappy, who – you guessed it – was essentially identical to the game’s title hero, right down to the police uniform.

i excitedly look these up, and while they look cool as heck, all they do is hug the left wall till they “find” the exit hahah.

article excerpt from: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/mappy-namcos-forgotten-follow-up-to-pac-man/

hellomrkearns

treefroggy

hellomrkearns IDK How this relates to namco but WOW I never heard of this, looks like they had working cabinets ???? My mind is blown, I need to play this game so badly.

X3N0Sbioz

I have this…

(Also, does anyone else do this? Like keep the original plastic but cut enough of it just to get the game out? I never seen anyone else do this on the internet. I even do this for cased games where the plastic becomes like a slip on cover.)

treefroggy

X3N0Sbioz majority of gamers do not, but this has been a thing since time began, wot with vinyl record sleeves and what not. Very smart and cool way to keep your boxes nice, if you want to.

Cheddahz

fridgeboy

https://youtu.be/GPzVlTgZoCg

hellomrkearns

tomjonjon

hellomrkearns did Aerosmith like gaming? They seem to pop up a lot.

hellomrkearns

tomjonjon I think Aerosmith likes money.

tomjonjon

hellomrkearns one dump truck full of cash = Revolution X

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