Masaya Nakamura, the Japanese pioneer of video games known as ” the father of Pac-Man, ” a hit of the 1980s, died on Jan. 22 at the age of 91 years, however, the death of the most famous video game pioneer, was announced by his own company Bandai Namco on Monday. No cause was given, and the company did not say where he died.
A private wake and funeral were held for Nakamura, and a separate memorial is being organised.
Nakamura, founded in 1955 his own company, which later became Namco and in 2005 merged with the Japanese giant Bandai toy.
It was launched with two wooden mechanical horses installed on the roof of a department store and then developed in video games, arcades and theme parks.The little yellow Pac-Man that swallows everything in its path was created in 1980 by the concept of games Namco, Toru Iwatani. PacMan had a brilliant success.The company launched three years later the machine “Pac-Man” video game designed by Toru Iwatani and considered the most successful of all time by the Guinness Book of Records.Next came other hits of recreational was like the series “Galaga”, “Time Crisis” or “Tekken”, released between the eighties and nineties and then transferred to home consoles.
