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Bandai Namco

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Bandai Namco Games
File:Namco Bandai Logo.png
Type Subsidiary
Founded 2006
(merger of Bandai and Namco)
Industry Video Games
Products Various Video Games
Employees 900 (2013)
Parent Bandai Namco Holdings
Website http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/english/

Bandai Namco Games Inc. (株式会社バンダイナムコゲームス, Bandai Namco Games Inc.), formerly named Namco Bandai Games Inc., stylized as "BANDAI NAMCO Games Inc.", is an arcade, mobile and home video game developer and publisher based in Japan. It is a merge between the video game divisions of Bandai and Namco. It developed other fighting games, such as Tekken and Soul.

Bandai Namco is the head developer for Super Smash Bros. 4, along with Sora Ltd.. Several items and characters from some of Namco's games, such as Galaga and Rally-X, appear in Super Smash Bros. 4.[1] A full list of Namco properties represented in Smash can be found here.

In Super Smash Bros. 4

See also: List of Namco universes

Bandai Namco's mascot, Pac-Man, appears as a playable character. Pac-Man can also make characters and items from other Namco series appear by using his up taunt, Namco Roulette, and his neutral special, Bonus Fruit. Boss Galagas, a type of enemy in Namco's Galaga series, as well the Special Flag, a collectible from numerous Namco games, also appear in Super Smash Bros. 4. A Mii Fighter costume based on Heihachi Mishima of the Tekken series (specifically, his youthful appearance in Tekken Tag Tournament 2) is available as downloadable content.


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