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Masaya Nakamura was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Namco..

The founder of video game company Bandai Namco, which released cult game Pac-Man, has died at the age of 91, the firm has announced.

Masaya Nakamura, a Japanese toy and game entrepreneur whose company's most enduring creation, Pac-Man, became a worldwide cultural touchstone, died on Jan.

Masaya Nakamura was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Namco.

Johnymodern on April 28, "This is me with Masaya Nakamura, the founder of Namco and the man who brought Pac-Man to the world.

Masaya Nakamura, a businessman who founded the Japanese video-game company behind the hit pellet-gobbling arcade game Pac-Man, died Jan. He was

Masaya Nakamura (businessman)

Japanese businessman (1925–2017)

Masaya Nakamura (中村雅哉, Nakamura Masaya, December 24, 1925 – January 22, 2017) was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Namco.

He was the company's president up until 2002, where he took a ceremonial role in its management. Following the formation of Bandai Namco Holdings, Nakamura would retain an honorary position in the video game division, Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Born in Tokyo, Nakamura graduated from the Yokohama Institute of Technology in 1948, having earned a degree in shipbuilding.

Masaya Nakamura, whose company created the arcade-game character Pac-Man, helped shape the pastimes of Japanese and American children from.

Nakamura would found his own company in 1955, Nakamura Seisakusho, Ltd., which produced pop-cork guns and coin-operated mechanical rides for Japanese department store rooftops. In 1974, Nakamura purchased the Japanese division of Atari from Nolan Bushnell, seeing it as a perfect opportunity to get into the market, and were allowed to release the company's games in Japan.

His company would be renamed to "Namco" in 1977