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The Namco name comes from Nakamura Manufacturing Company, derived from its founder Masaya Nakamura.

Masaya Nakamura, who has died aged 91, started out working in his father's gun repair shop in Yokohama, Japan, and went on to found Namco and build a global.

Masaya Nakamura Namco – Japanese Businessman and Founder of Namco

Full name: Masaya Nakamura (Namco)

Date of birth: 24 December 1925

Date of death: 22 January 2017 (aged 91)

Nationality: Japanese

Early Life

Masaya Nakamura (Namco) was born on 24 December 1925, in Japan.

He was a Japanese businessman and founder of Namco, initially an amusement ride manufacturing company, but which grew under Nakamura’s leadership into the third largest video game developing entity in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s.

Nakamura helped to usher in Namco’s growing video game division for arcade games, leading to numerous successes including Toru Iwatani’s Pac-Man (1980), which remains the highest-grossing arcade game worldwide; for his leadership in directing the company to this success, Nakamura is considered “the father of Pac-Man”.

Nakamura stepped down as Namco’s CEO in 2002 and took a ceremonial role in the company’s m