Bandai Namco Holdings is a Japanese holdings company that specializes in video games, toys, arcades, anime and amusement parks, and is headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo. [1] They were formed after the merge of Namco and Bandai on 29 September 2005, with both companies' assets being merged into a single corporate entity. The video game branch of the company is Bandai Namco Entertainment, producing games for home consoles, arcade hardware and mobile phones. Bandai Namco creates several highly successful video game franchises, including Tekken , Pac-Man , Gundam and Tales , as is Japan's third largest video game company and the seventh in the world by revenue, as well as the largest toy company in the world by 2017. [2] [3]
Since 1990, Bandai Namco has produced many compilations containing their games, notably their arcade titles from the 1970s and 1980s, for various home video game systems, handhelds, personal computers and arcade boards. Out of these compilations, the Namco Museum series has been the most successful, selling a total of 9.113 million copies total across all platforms. [n 1] Some of these compilations would be outsourced to other game developers, including Microsoft, Mass Media, Digital Eclipse, M2, and Cattle Call.
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Disk NG 1 | 9 March 1990 [9] | none | none |
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Disk NG 2 | 26 April 1990 [9] | none | none |
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Galaxian & Galaga | 14 July 1995 [9] | 26 June 1996 [11] | 1995 |
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Namco Museum Vol. 1 | 22 November 1995 [9] | 31 July 1996 | 17 August 1996 |
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Namco Classic Collection Vol. 1 | November 1995 | 1995 | 1995 |
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Namco Classic Collection Vol. 2 | March 1996 | 1996 | 1996 |
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Namco Museum Vol. 2 | 9 February 1996 [9] | 30 September 1996 | 22 November 1996 |
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Microsoft Return of Arcade | none | April 1996 | none |
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Namco Museum Vol. 3 | 21 June 1996 [9] | 31 January 1997 | 12 February 1997 |
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Namco Gallery Vol. 1 | 21 July 1996 [9] | none | none |
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Namco Museum Vol. 4 | 8 November 1996 [9] | 30 June 1997 | 18 August 1997 |
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Namco Gallery Vol. 2 | 29 November 1996 [9] | none | none |
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Arcade Classics | none | none | 1996 |
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Namco Museum Vol. 5 | 28 February 1997 | 26 November 1997 | 26 February 1998 |
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Xevious 3D/G+ | 28 March 1997 [9] | 30 June 1997 | 1997 |
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Namco History Vol. 1 | 25 April 1997 [14] | none | none |
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Namco Gallery Vol. 3 | 25 July 1997 [9] | none | none |
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Namco Museum Encore | 30 October 1997 | none | none |
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Namco History Vol. 2 | 28 November 1997 | none | none |
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Namco Anthology 1 | 4 June 1998 | none | none |
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Namco History Vol. 3 | 9 June 1998 | none | none |
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Namco Anthology 2 | 23 September 1998 | none | none |
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Microsoft Revenge of Arcade | none | October 1998 | none |
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Namco History Vol. 4 | 4 December 1998 | none | none |
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Namco Collection Vol. 1 | 2 April 1999 [15] | none | none |
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Namco Collection Vol. 2 | 30 April 1999 [15] | none | none |
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Namco Museum 64 | none | 31 October 1999 | none |
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Pac-Man: Special Color Edition | none | November 1999 [16] | none |
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Pac-Man Collection | 11 January 2002 [17] | 12 July 2001 [17] | 7 December 2001 [17] |
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Namco Museum | none | 31 July 2000 | none |
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Namco Museum | none | 4 December 2001 | none |
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20 Year Reunion: Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga – Class of 1981 | none | 2001 | none |
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Gunvari Collection + Time Crisis | 12 December 2002 | none | none |
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Namco Vintage | none | 6 November 2004 [18] | none |
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Game Densetsu | January 2005 | none | none |
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Namco Museum Battle Collection | 24 February 2005 | 23 August 2005 | 9 December 2005 |
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NamCollection | 21 July 2005 [19] | none | none |
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Namco Museum 50th Anniversary | 26 January 2006 | 30 August 2005 [20] | 31 March 2006 |
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Pac-Man 25th Anniversary | none | 2005 | none |
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Namco Museum Vol. 2 | 23 February 2006 | none | none |
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Namco Nostalgia 1 | 15 June 2006 | none | none |
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Namco Nostalgia 2 | 15 June 2006 | none | none |
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Namco Museum DS | 11 October 2007 | 18 September 2007 | 22 February 2008 |
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Namco Museum Remix | 23 October 2007 [21] | 6 December 2007 [21] | 18 April 2008 [21] |
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Namco Classic Fighter Collection | none | 17 September 2008 [22] | none |
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Pac-Man Power Pack | none | 17 September 2008 [22] | none |
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Naruto: Ultimate Collection | none | 17 September 2008 [22] | none |
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Namco Museum Virtual Arcade | 5 November 2009 | 4 November 2008 [23] | 15 May 2009 |
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Namco Museum Essentials | 29 January 2009 [24] | 22 July 2009 [25] | 1 April 2010 [25] |
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Namco Games Portal | none | 26 July 2010 [29] | none |
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Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X | 5 August 2010 [30] | none | none |
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Time Crisis: Razing Storm | 21 October 2010 | 19 October 2010 [31] | 5 November 2010 |
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Namco Museum Megamix | none | 16 November 2010 [33] | none |
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Pac-Man's Arcade Party | none | 2010 [34] | none |
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Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions | 23 June 2011 | 26 July 2011 [35] | 26 August 2011 [35] |
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Galaga 30th Collection | 3 July 2011 [36] | 3 July 2011 [36] | 3 July 2011 [36] |
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Tekken Hybrid | 1 December 2011 [37] | 22 November 2011 [37] | none |
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Namco Arcade | 26 January 2012 | 2013 | 2013 |
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Pac-Man Games | none | 29 March 2012 | none |
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Duel Pack: Pac-Man World 3 / Namco Museum DS | none | 30 October 2012 | none |
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Pac-Man Museum | 25 June 2014 | 25 February 2014 [38] | 26 February 2014 |
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Arcade Game Series | 20 April 2016 [40] | 20 April 2016 [40] | 20 April 2016 [40] |
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Arcade Game Series 3-in-1 Pack | 20 April 2016 [41] | 20 April 2016 [41] | 20 April 2016 [41] |
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Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 + Arcade Game Series | none | 1 November 2016 | none |
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Namco Museum | 28 July 2017 | 28 July 2017 [42] | 28 July 2017 [42] |
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Pac-Man's Pixel Bash | none | June 2018 | none |
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Namco Museum Arcade Pac | none | 28 September 2018 [43] | none |
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Namco Museum Mini Player | none | 25 July 2019 [44] | none |
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Namcot Collection | 18 June 2020 | none | none |
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Namco Museum Archives Vol. 1 | none | 18 June 2020 | 18 June 2020 |
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Namco Museum Archives Vol. 2 | none | 18 June 2020 | 18 June 2020 |
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