Friendly Reminder: Pac-Man!

NEWS: Pac-Man, The Tower of Druaga, and Mendel Palace have been added to the Nintendo Classics NES lineup. youtu.be/9VMBJOqyoho?...

Splatterhouse gallery: vgdensetsu.net/splatterhous...

Shigeru Miyamoto (Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda) with Masanobu Endo (Xevious, The Tower of Druaga), from the magazine Famimaga.

Xevious has an Easter Egg accessible through the main game. Starting level one, move the Solvalou to the bottom right and frequently press the fire button. A message will appear: “Namco Original program by EVEZOO.” This references the game’s designer Masanobu Endō.

There is an Easter Egg hidden in Pac-Man, a screen reading “Made by Namco.” It can be accessed through service mode and by pressing a combination of certain buttons. Similar Easter Eggs can be found in several other Namco arcade games.

Märchen Maze pencil illustrations drawn by Kouichi Tokita, as seen in the Namco Sound Museum Märchen Maze & Sound Off & Final Blaster soundtrack booklet.

Final Lap arcade flyer

Pac-Man creator Tōru Iwatani shows off the game’s maze and sprite designs.

driver's eyes, magazine photo & caption, arcade (1992) archive.org/details/Nint...

Final Lap is the latest addition to the Arcade Archives releases of classic arcade games. www.arcadearchives.com/en/title/aca...

Postcards from the Namco Community Magazine NG July 1986 issue.

Goro (Mappy Land)

Oh wow!! This weeks Arcade Archives release is Namco's 1987 racing game Final Lap #ファイナルラップ #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ #ナムコ

Game Freak magazine illustration of Pole Position arcade cabinet with Lum Invader from the manga and anime Urusei Yatsura. Illustration by Ken Sugimori (Pokémon).

スコアがインフレしているゲームというのはスペースハリアーのことかしら…この頃のナムコ尖ってるな… (季刊エヌジー1986年7月号より) #NG #Namco #1986

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Illustration of Namco Community Magazine NG staff from the June 1983 issue #namco #retrogaming

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While Toru Iwatani has long been absent from Pac-Man productions for many years now, one unutilized concept lingers within his mind: having Pac-Man sing. Albeit rarely, there are multiple instances in interviews where he publicly proposes the idea of a Pac-Man music game.

Box art for the Sega Genesis release of Marvel Land, illustrated by Greg Martin, who also illustrated for the Pac-Man franchise. #namco #marvelland #retrogaming #segagenesis

illustration, michigan atari magazine (1988) archive.org/details/Mich...

namco museum vol. 3, screenshot, playstation (1997) www.mobygames.com/game/3735/na...

Namco logo with the Greg Martin Pac-Man, as seen in Speed Racer, the arcade game #namco #pacman

JOB ALERT: Bandai Namco is hiring to post Pac-Man content on their social media channels!

As a fun bonus upload this weekend, please enjoy a VHS rip of a promotional tape for Klonoa: Empire of Dreams and various other Namco games from 2001: youtu.be/fDlqLFmr4KA

As seen in prototypes, the title screen for the 16-bit versions of Ms. Pac-Man originally gave the character an eerily uncanny appearance, possibly intended to harken back to the game's marketing in the 80s In the final, her design - while retaining subtle creative liberties - is much more on-brand

Happy Pi Day! 🥧 From Pac-Mania! The Official Pac-Man Joke Book. #piday #pacman #namco #retrogaming #videogames

PAC-ATTACK NAMCO 1994 SEGA GAME GEAR

Be like Pico & create a Heartful Spirit (best to ask car mechanics if they want their car lifted 1st though)

Junko Ozawa composed music and designed sound effects for many classic Namco games. Her audio work can be heard in The Tower of Druaga, Gaplus, Rolling Thunder, Sky Kid, Pac-Mania, Toy Pop, and The Return of Ishtar. #womenshistorymonth #namco #pacman #videogames #retrogaming

Mario Kart Arcade GP arcade cabinet flyer (2005). This game, developed by Namco, was part of the Mario Kart series. The game featured playable characters from Nintendo’s Super Mario and Namco’s Pac-Man franchises. #namco #pacman #mspacman #mario #mariokart #videogame #marioday #nintendo

一見ほのぼのとしたパックマンのスロットだが、リーチになるとディグダグくんが出てきてゴーストを膨らませて破裂させるカオスな展開が見れる。ディグダグ容赦ない… #PacEight #Namco #1996

Although Ms. Pac-Man is not a fighter in the Super Smash Bros. games, she does make a cameo in the Pac-Land stage. Just like in the Pac-Land game, she waits for the player to make it back home before the next trip begins.

Happy Mario Day! Flyer for the Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr./Mario Bros. arcade cabinet from Namco. #namco #nintendo #mario #donkeykong #retrogaming

NEWS: Dig Dug was newly added to Retrocade, a retro arcade collection on Apple Arcade. Galaga and Pac-Man are also on the app.

In the original Pac-Man World, by collecting all of the P-A-C-M-A-N letters in each level and then completing the game, players can unlock a series of "outtakes" that frame the game's cutscenes as a film production Pac-Man and co. were acting for.

pac-man, alternate ghost names, arcade (1980) 'the board has a dip switch called "alternate ghost names". in the japanese version, this would change the ghosts' character names and nicknames to a different set..' tcrf.net/Pac-Man_(Arc...

The new orange ghost in Ms. Pac-Man, Sue, was named after both (of GCC) Doug Macrae's sister and (of Midway) Stan Jarocki's daughter, Susan. Susan Jarocki would eventually make her own mark on the video game industry as part of SNK's leadership in the 1990s.

Chef Boyardee Pac-Man (1983-1987): A line of canned pasta concoctions, based on both the "Pac-Man" arcade games and short-lived TV series. Featured pasta shaped like ghosts, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Pac-Baby, in "golden chicken" sauce, cheese sauce, or tomato sauce with meatballs

Box art for the NES release of Pac-Man released by Tengen, the console publishing subsidiary of Atari Games. #namco #pacman #retrogaming #videogame #nintendo

Yuriko Keino was a composer and sound designer who contributed to Namco arcade games including Dig Dug, Xevious, Pac-Land, Pole Position, and Dragon Buster. #womenshistorymonth #namco #xevious #retrogaming #videogame

Authored by Deborah Palicia in 2002, Pac-Man Collectibles is an unofficial catalog that showcases photographs of all sorts of Pac-Man products and merchandise from over the years. A second volume was planned, but never materialized.

Happy Pokémon Day! The Internet Archive has issues of Game Freak, a magazine self-published by Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri. The magazine covered Namco’s arcade games. archive.org/details/douj...

Game Freak magazine cover featuring a Druaga-themed illustration by Ken Sugimori, Pokémon character designer. Posting to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first games in the Pokémon series. Before creating Pokémon, Satoshi Tajiri self-published Game Freak, a video game fan magazine.

NEWS: Paramount Skydance likely to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. If the acquisition goes through, Paramount will own these Namco-related properties: the 1982 Hanna-Barbera Pac-Man cartoon and the library from Atari Games, a company once co-owned by Namco and Warner. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

The earliest incarnation of an arcade officially bearing the Pac-Man branding is Bally's Pac-Man Palace. This chain was operated by none other than Bally Midway, who were the American rights holders and distributors of Pac-Man games in the early-to-mid 1980s.

March 1988 issue cover of Namco Community Magazine NG #namco #thetowerofdruaga #retrogaming #ドルアーガの塔

KPop Demon Hunters has a fun Pac-Man reference in the end credits. Sony owns the animation studio that made the movie (Sony Pictures Animation) and partially owns Bandai Namco, owners of the Pac-Man I.P. #namco #pacman #kpopdemonhunters #videogames #retrogaming

Splatterhouse 2 (1992)