Posts Tagged ‘Namco’
Namco’s Mr Driller might be best described as ‘what it’s like to be inside Tetris’ but, as producer Hideo Yoshizawa tells us, its true inspiration was a world away from the original block-dropper.
As Katsuhiro Harada prepares to go to toe to toe with his longtime Japanese rivals at Capcom, in Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter, we speak to the Namco veteran about the creation of the first ever Tekken game, way back in 1994.
This week marks the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man’s debut in the arcades and, by extension, the advent of real characters in videogames rather than faceless spaceships or tennis rackets. So please join us as we profile the history of gaming’s oldest superstar and pay tribute to some of his best games.