Company: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land
Sleeping Dogs
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Tales of Berseria
Code Vein
Eternal Sonata
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
Tekken 8
One Piece: Unlimited Adventure
One Piece: Pirate Warriors
Tetris: Axis
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations
The Idolmaster
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven
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Pac-Man Championship Edition
Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections
Dark Souls III
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Dragon Ball Fusions
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Tales of Xillia
Mappy
Dark Souls II
Tekken 7
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J-Stars Victory Vs
Star Luster
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
My Hero One's Justice 2
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
Tales of Symphonia
SoulCalibur VI
One Piece: Grand Adventure
Snoopy vs. The Red Baron
Elden Ring
Little Nightmares
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
One Piece Odyssey
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Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
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In 1984, Namco's sound team released Video Game Music, a compilation album produced by Yellow Magic Orchestra bandleader Haruomi Hosono that gathered together various songs from Namco's arcade games. While not the first album to incorporate video game music (being predated by Yellow Magic Orchestra's self-titled debut in 1978), it was the first to consist entirely of it. In turn, Namco composers Shinji Hosoe, Nobuyoshi Sano, Takayuki Aihara, and Hiroto Sasaki would later form Oriental Magnetic Yellow, a parody group based on Yellow Magic Orchestra.
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In 2011, Bandai Namco created the "United Galaxy Space Force" series that retconned and merged many of their futuristic space games that were previously unrelated to each other into a single continuity. As of 2014, the timeline connects together the plots of numerous games and series including (in chronological order on the timeline) Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, Cyber Sled & Cyber Commando, Burning Force, Galaxian, Bosconian, Bounty Hounds, Starblade, Dig Dug, Baraduke, Mr. Driller, Star Luster & Star Ixiom, Mizuiro Blood, the cancelled game "Starblade - Operation Blue Planet", Shin-Gun Destroy! Girl's Tank Battalion, the cancelled game "New Space Order", and Thunder Ceptor & 3-D Thunder Ceptor II.
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Bandai Namco heavily assisted Nintendo in the development of their games Mario Kart Tour, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Arms according to the Products page on Bandai Namco's website. However, they chose to be uncredited for their work in the games' final releases.
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When Namco entered the home video games market in the 1980's, releases were credited to "Namcot" - a separate division of Namco created to handle this area.
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Namco started out in 1955 as a kiddie ride manufacturer named Nakamura Manufacturing. They mostly created rocking horses and miniature train rides, some of which used Disney characters.
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From 1995 to its expiration in 2015, Bandai Namco owned a patent on having a playable minigame during loading screens.