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Bandai Namco Entertainment, Inc. (formerly known as Namco Bandai Games and Bandai Namco Games) is a Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher founded in 2005 by Masaya Nakamura through the merger of Bandai with Namco.
Bandai Namco produces several multi-million-selling video game franchises, including Pac-Man, Galaxian, Gundam, Tales, Tekken, Soulcalibur, Ace Combat and Taiko no Tatsujin. The company is the third largest video game publisher in Japan by revenue and the seventh in the world.
Why They Rock
Bandai
- Nice reputation on their video games published by them.
- Their intellectual properties, such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Digimon, are famously awesome.
- Has a great relationship with Namco, localizing their NES games to Western markets in the 1980s before merging it in 2005.
- They began to create awesome video games in 1985.
- Licenses many properties like Dragon Ball and Godzilla.
- Localizing Vectrex and Intellivision to the Japanese market.
- Outstanding graphics for each era.
- Good music for the respective video game generations.
- It used to publish games in the United Kingdom, like Street Fighter II
- Classical and decent gameplay for each game.
- Made its partnership with Nintendo's Gunpei Yokoi, creating WonderSwan, but only in Japan.
- They also make great toys.
Namco
- Expiration of Namco's Patent on Loading Screen Minigames.
- Their intellectual properties, such as Pac-Man, Galaga, Xevious, Tekken, Ridge Racer, Time Crisis, Ace Combat, Idolm@ster, Point Blank, Wangan Midnight, and Taiko no Tatsujin, are famously awesome.
- Huge classic arcade hits like Pac-Man, Galaxian, Pole Position, Mappy, Xevious and Dig Dug.
- From the golden age era, they started to port video arcade games or exclusively make video games for home consoles and computers, mostly Sony PlayStation consoles.
- Pac-Man, the titular hero of the greatest arcade game of all time, popularly became one of Namco's video game mascots.
- Outstanding graphics for each era.
- Good music for the respective video game generations.
- Listens to their feedback like in Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5 International version where people complained that the game itself was a rehash of Wangan #Midnight Maximum Tune 4, which Namco listens to their feedback and brought some of the content from vanilla Japanese Maximum Tune 5 into the International releases of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5DX.
- Classical and decent gameplay for each game.
- Banapassport revolutionized the usage of player cards in the arcades that were used to level up your character, cars, etc.
Bad Qualities
Bandai
- They try to copyright the term finishing move.
- They made in collaboration with Apple the infamous Apple Bandai Pippin console.
- They are infamous for its terrible handling on licensed games. In fact, most of their crappy games in the CGW are licensed games.
Namco
- They no longer care about Pac-Man anymore (even though Pac-Man Championship Edition and Pac-Man And the Ghosty Adventures were decent), though not as badly as how Capcom has been treating their mascot, Mega Man.
List of video games developed/published
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: Alliance vs. Z.A.F.T. II (2006)
- Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (2006)
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (2006)
- Pac-Man World Rally (2006)
- Tales of the Abyss (2006)
- Gunpey (2006)
- .hack//G.U. Vol. 1//Rebirth (2006)
- Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (2006)
- Digimon World DS (2006)
- Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (2006)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire (2006)
- Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles (2006)
- Ridge Racer 7 (2006)
- Super Dragon Ball Z (2006)
- Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop (2006)
- Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 2 (2006)
- Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (2006)
- Mage Knight: Destiny's Soldier (2006)
- Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senjō no Kizuna (2006)
- One Piece: Grand Adventure (2006)
- Inuyasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel (2007)
- The Legend of Heroes III: Song of the Ocean (2007)
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam (2007)
- Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 (2007)
- Nodame Cantabile (2007)
- The Idolmaster (2007)
- .hack//G.U. Vol. 2//Reminisce (2007)
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 (2007)
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes (2007)
- Tales of the Tempest (2007)
- Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology (2007)
- Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles 2 (2007)
- Soulcalibur Legends (2007)
- .hack//G.U. Vol. 3//Redemption (2007)
- Eternal Sonata (2007)
- Digimon World Dawn and Dusk (2007)
- Namco Museum DS (2007)
- Trioncube (2007)
- Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (2007)
- Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu (2007)
- Beautiful Katamari (2007)
- Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (2007)
- Namco Museum Remix (2007)
- Nodame Cantabile: Dream Orchestra (2007)
- One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (2007)
- Tamagotchi: Party On! (2007)
- Tekken 6 (2007)
- Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3 (2007)
- Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3 DX (2007)
- Tales of Innocence (2008)
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 (2008)
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress (2008)
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (2008)
- Super Robot Wars Z (2008)
- Soulcalibur IV (2008)
- Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier (2008)
- Digimon World Championship (2008)
- Mobile Ops: The One Year War (2008)
- Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (2008)
- Tales of Vesperia (2008)
- Tales of Hearts (2008)
- The Idolmaster Live For You! (2008)
- Dragon Ball: Origins (2008)
- Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (2008)
- Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World (2008)
- Mario Super Sluggers (2008)
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 (2008)
- Klonoa (2008)
- Afro Samurai (2009)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4 (2009)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 5 (2009)
- Namco Museum Essentials (2009)
- Dragonball Evolution (2009)
- Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (2009)
- Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo (2009)
- Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans (2009)
- MagnaCarta 2 (2009)
- Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes (2009)
- Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes W (2009)
- One Piece: Unlimited Cruise (2009)
- Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny (2009)
- Tales of VS (2009)
- Super Robot Wars Z: Special Disk (2009)
- Super Robot Wars K (2009)
- Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion (2009)
- The Idolmaster SP (2009)
- SuperRobo Gakuen (2009)
- The Idolmaster Dearly Stars (2009)
- Super Robot Wars NEO (2009)
- The Munchables (2009)
- Katamari Forever (2009)
- Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked (2009)
- Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon (2009)
- Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 (2009)
- Tales of Graces (2009)
- Taiko no Tatsujin 13 (2009)
- Muscle March (2010)
- Dragon Ball: Origins 2 (2010)
- Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 (2010)
- Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team (2010)
- Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010)
- Clash of the Titans (2010)
- God Eater Burst (2010)
- .hack//Link (2010)
- Gundam Battle Universe (2010)
- Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes OOO (2010)
- Tank! Tank! Tank! (2010)
- Super Robot Wars L (2010)
- Dead to Rights: Retribution (2010)
- Splatterhouse (2010)
- Battle Spirits: Heroes Soul (2010)
- Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3 DX PLUS (2010)
- Tales of Graces f (2010)
- Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X (2010)
- Endless Frontier EXCEED: Super Robot Wars OG Saga (2010)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 (2010)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (2010)
- Pac-Man Party (2010)
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 (2010)
- Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (2010)
- Ni no Kuni (2011)
- Dragon Ball Heroes (2011)
- Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butoden (2011)
- Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi (2011)
- Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 (2011)
- The Idolmaster 2 (2011)
- Ridge Racer 3D (2011)
- Knights Contract (2011)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. (2011)
- 2nd Super Robot Wars Z (2011)
- Dark Souls (2011)
- Go Vacation (2011)
- Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes Fourze (2011)
- Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (2011)
- Tales of Xillia (2011)
- Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 (2011)
- Another Century's Episode Portable (2011)
- Ridge Racer Vita (2011)
- DualPenSports (2011)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact (2011)
- Power Rangers Samurai (2011)
- Soulcalibur V (2012)
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (2012)
- Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masō Kishin II – Revelation of Evil God (2012)
- Dragon Ball Z: For Kinect (2012)
- Dragon Ball Z: Budokai HD Collection (2012)
- Tekken 3D: Prime Edition (2012)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation (2012)
- Power Rangers Super Samurai for Kinect (2012)
- Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2012)
- Ridge Racer Unbounded (2012)
- Inversion (2012)
- Kamen Rider: Super Climax Heroes (2012)
- Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2012)
- Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave (2012)
- Project X Zone (2012)
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Battle Destiny (2012)
- ThunderCats (2012)
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors (2012)
- Armored Core V (2012)
- Tokitowa (2012)
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D (2012)
- The Idolmaster Shiny Festa (2012)
- Accel World: Ginyoku no Kakusei (2012)
- 2nd Super Robot Wars Original Generation (2012)
- Tales of Innocence R (2012)
- Tales of Xillia 2 (2012)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Full Boost (2012)
- Taiko no Tatsujin (2012)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations (2012)
- Digimon Adventure (2013)
- Accel World: Kasoku no Chōten (2013)
- Gintama no Sugoroku (2013)
- Super Robot Wars UX (2013)
- Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment (2013)
- Super Robot Wars Operation Extend (2013)
- Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masō Kishin III – Pride of Justice (2013)
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (2013)
- Star Trek (2013)
- Saint Seiya: Brave Soldiers (2013)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (2013)
- Tekken Revolution (2013)
- Super Robot Wars OG Infinite Battle (2013)
- Mario Kart Arcade GP DX (2013)
- Power Rangers Megaforce (2013)
- Disney Magical World (2013)
- Gundam Breaker (2013)
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn (2013)
- Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (2013)
- Macross 30: The Voice that Connects the Galaxy (2013)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (2013)
- Armored Core: Verdict Day (2013)
- God Eater 2 (2013)
- Taiko no Tatsujin: Wii U Version (2013)
- One Piece: Unlimited World Red (2013)
- Naruto Online (2013)
- Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z (2014)
- Super Heroine Chronicle (2014)
- Tales of Hearts R (2014)
- Mobile Suit Gundam Side Stories (2014)
- Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story: Missing Link (2014)
- Casting Voice (2014)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Maxi Boost (2014)
- Dark Souls II (2014)
- Taiko no Tatsujin: Don to Katsu no Jikū Daibōken (2014)
- Tenkai Knights: Brave Battle (2014)
- 3rd Super Robot Wars Z (2014)
- Ace Combat Infinity (2014)
- Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment (2014)
- Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masō Kishin F – Coffin of the End (2014)
- Gundam Breaker 2 (2014)
- Enemy Front (2014)
- Soulcalibur: Lost Swords (2014)
- Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 (2014)
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (2014)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution (2014)
- Tales of the World: Tactics Union (2014)
- Power Rangers Super Megaforce (2014)
- Digimon All-Star Rumble (2014)
- J-Stars Victory VS (2014)
- Star Wars Battle Pod (2014)
- One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X (2014)
- Taiko no Tatsujin: Tokumori! (2014)
- Godzilla (2014)
- Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy Plus (2015)
- Tales of Zestiria (2015)
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse (2015)
- Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden (2015)
- Super Robot Wars BX (2015)
- Taiko no Tatsujin: V Version (2015)
- Taiko no Tatsujin: Atsumete Tomodachi Daisakusen! (2015)
- God Eater 2: Rage Burst (2015)
- Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (2015)
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 (2015)
- Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (2015)
- Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons tr. (2015)
- Gundam Battle Operation Next (2015)
- Ray Gigant (2015)
- Pokkén Tournament (2015)
- Lost Reavers (2015)
- Rise of Incarnates (2015)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven (2015)
- Project X Zone 2 (2015)
- Project CARS (2015)
- Sword Art Online: Lost Song (2015)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 (2016)
- Dark Souls III (2016)
- One Piece: Burning Blood (2016)
- Necropolis (2016)
- Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers (2016)
- Duelyst (2016)
- Taiko no Tatsujin: Dokodon! Mystery Adventure (2016)
- Tales of Berseria (2016)
- Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization (2016)
- Digimon World: Next Order (2016)
- Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade (2016)
- Gundam Breaker 2 (2016)
- Dragon Ball Fusions (2016)
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (2016)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs-Force (2016)
- My Hero Academia (2016)
- Mighty Action X (2016)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Mega Battle (2017)
- Impact Winter (2017)
- Little Nightmares (2017)
- Super Robot Wars V (2017)
- Chroma Squad (2017)
- Tekken 7 (2017)
- Get Even (2017)
- Accel World vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight (2017)
- City Shrouded in Shadow (2017)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy (2017)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy (2017)
- Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time (2017)
- .hack//G.U. Last Recode (2017)
- Project CARS 2 (2017)
- Mario Sports Superstar (2017)
- Summer Lesson (2017)
- Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum Session! (2017)
- Ben 10 (2017)
- Pokkén Tournament DX (2017)
- Kamen Rider Climax Fighters (2017)
- One Piece: Grand Cruise (2017)
- Girls und Panzer: Dream Tank Match (2017)
- Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker's Memory (2017)
- The Idolmaster: Stella Stage (2017)
- Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (2018)
- Shoot Away PRO (2018)
- Sword Art Online: Replication Project (2018)
- Dark Souls: Remastered (2018)
- Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion (2018)
- Super Robot Wars X (2018)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation 2 (2018)
- Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker (2018)
- Dragon Ball FighterZ (2018)
- New Gundam Breaker (2018)
- Katamari Damacy Reroll (2018)
- Gintama Rumble (2018)
- Full Metal Panic! Fight Who Dares Wins (2018)
- Record of Grancrest War (2018)
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Knights of Britannia (2018)
- Dragon Ball Z: X Keepers (2018)
- Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet (2018)
- God Eater 3 (2018)
- Black Clover: Project Knights (2018)
- Divinity: Original Sin II (2018)
- Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (2018)
- My Hero Academia: One's Justice (2018)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
- Nari Kids Park: HUGtto! PreCure (2018)
- Nari Kids Park: Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patoranger (2018)
- Nari Kids Park: Ultraman R/B (2018)
- Black Clover: Quartet Knights (2018)
- Soulcalibur VI (2018)
- 11-11: Memories Retold (2018)
- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (2019)
- Jump Force (2019)
- One Piece: World Seeker (2019)
- Super Robot Wars T (2019)
- The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan (2019)
- Code Vein (2019)
- Disney Tsum Tsum Festival (2019)
- Ninja Box (2019)
- Tokyo Ghoul: re Call to Exist (2019)
- Doraemon Story of Seasons (2019)
- Rad (2019)
- Bless Unleashed (2019)
- Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (2020)
- One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (2020)
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (2020)
- My Hero Academia: One's Justice 2 (2020)
- Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris (2020)
- Fast & Furious Crossroads (2020)
- Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions (2020)
- Project CARS 3 (2020)
- Twin Mirror (2020)
- Digimon Survive (2020)
- Tales of Arise (2020)
- Scarlet Nexus (2020)
- Elden Ring (TBA)
- New Pokémon Snap (TBA)
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