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2 unusual facts about Namco


Damxung County

Damxung County is located in the middle of the Tibet Autonomous Region and by the side of the Lhamo Namco Holy Lake.

GameFan

The article discussed a Namco flight-simulator, Ace Combat, rather than College Football '96 (which was the topic of the article) and was extremely poorly written.


Ace Combat

Ace Combat 3 uses an electronic soundtrack similar to that of Namco's Ridge Racer series, but with more focus on atmosphere and dissonant synth instruments than electronic beats.

Air combat

Air Combat, a semi-realistic flight-sim/action game developed by Namco

Bosconian

Bosconian was ported to several computer systems, including the Sharp X68000, MSX, Commodore 64, and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and later appeared in several of Namco's Namco Museum compilations for PlayStation and other consoles.

Chun-Li

She and Ryu are the only Street Fighter characters to appear in every Capcom crossover title, including the SNK vs. Capcom fighting game series by SNK and the tactical role-playing games Namco × Capcom and Project X Zone by Namco.

Dancing Eyes

Unlike other "Namco Generations" brand games, this one was only for PlayStation Network (PlayStation 3) (other Namco Generations games were also for Xbox Live Arcade).

Digital Extremes

Digital Extremes developed the game for the Star Trek Into Darkness movie, working with Namco Bandai and Paramount to develop Star Trek the game.

Druaga

The Namco video game series The Tower of Druaga pits the hero Gilgamesh against the demon Druaga whilst on a quest to obtain the Blue Crystal Rod and save the Priestess of Ishtar, Ki.

Hildegard von Krone

Created by Namco's Project Soul division, she first appeared in Soulcalibur IV and its subsequent sequels, later appearing in various merchandise related to the series.

London County Hall

Today County Hall is the site of businesses and attractions, including the London Sea Life Aquarium, a permanent exhibition of works by the artist-in residence, Nasser Azam, and a Namco Station amusement arcade.

Metro-Cross

A high definition sequel called Aero-Cross was being developed for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network as part of the Namco Generations line until it was cancelled along with the Namco Generations brand itself being discontinued.

Namco Generations

ShiftyLook - A subsidiary of Namco Bandai that's also focused on revitalizing older and/or obscure Namco franchises

Namco Tales Studio

At the time of its renaming Namco owned 60% of this venture, Telenet Japan/Kazuyuki Fukushima retained 34%, and Tales series director Eiji Kikuchi received 6%.

Nintendo Entertainment System Game Pak

In Japan, these companies manufactured the game cartridges for the Famicom: Nintendo, Konami, Capcom, Namco, Bandai, Taito, Irem, Jaleco, Sunsoft and Hudson Soft.

Phantasia

Tales of Phantasia, part of the Tales series of games published by Namco

Ridge Racer Type 4 Direct Audio

R4 instead explored music styles encompassing funk, breakbeat, acid jazz, UK garage, progressive house, and neo-soul mixed with traditional Namco synth melodies.

Silpheed

The Mega-CD port of Silpheed features polygon ships over a pre-rendered video background; this method is also seen in other video game titles, such as Namco's StarBlade in 1991, Sony Imagesoft's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, and Micronet's A/X-101 in 1994 for the Mega-CD.

Sky Kid

In Namco's Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, three allied pilots have the call signs "Sky Kid," "Red Baron," and "Blue Max."

Subaru Alcyone SVX

Also, in Gaming, the Alcyone SVX appeared in various games such as Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo and Bandai Namco's Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune.

Tekken 6

On October 23, 2009, Namco Bandai released a Tekken 6 themed game space in the North American version of the PlayStation 3's online community-based service, PlayStation Home.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2

On June 5, 2012 at E3, Namco Bandai announced a partnership with American rapper Snoop Dogg for content for Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

Time Crisis II

Time Crisis II was released utilizing Namco's System 23 arcade board in 1997, and was ported to PlayStation 2 (with enhanced graphics and polygon textures) in 2001.

Toru Iwatani

Iwatani left Namco in March 2007 to become a full-time lecturer at Tokyo Polytechnic University.

Xevious

Popular musicians Haruomi Hosono (Yellow Magic Orchestra) and Keisuke Kuwata (Southern All Stars) were known to be fans of the game, and the former produced an album of music from Namco video-games, with Xevious as its centerpiece.

Yamaha YM2151

It was also used in arcade games, starting with Atari's Marble Madness, and later being licensed for use by many other companies including Sega, Konami, Capcom, Data East Pinball and Namco, with its heaviest use in the late 1980s, as well as in the Sharp X1 and Sharp X68000 home computers.


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