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Masaya Nakamura, the Japanese video game pioneer known as the “father of Pac-Man”, has died aged 91, his company said Monday.<\/p>\n
Nakamura, who passed away on January 22, founded a company in 1955 that would later become Namco.<\/p>\n
The company started out by installing two wooden, mechanical horses on a department store rooftop and went on to develop household and arcade games, theme parks and other amusement facilities.<\/p>\n
It merged with Japanese toy giant Bandai in 2005.<\/p>\n
Namco game designer Toru Iwatani created the yellow Pac-Man, which hit the market in 1980.<\/p>\n
The gobbling character became hugely popular among gamers, with the Guinness World Records ranking it “the most successful coin-operated arcade machine”.<\/p>\n
The company did not release details about Nakamura’s death, citing the wishes of his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Masaya Nakamura, the Japanese video game pioneer known as the “father of Pac-Man”, has died aged 91, his company said Monday. Nakamura, who passed away on January 22, founded a company in 1955 that would later become Namco. The company started out by installing two wooden, mechanical horses on a department store rooftop and went on to develop household and arcade games, theme parks and… <\/p>\n