NAMCO MUSEUM ONLINE

An unofficial blog celebrating Namco. Curator is a rare and bizarre sight these days.

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I'm still alive.

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Would you believe that the original Namco Museum is thirty (30) years old now? When it came out, the oldest game in the collection was Pac-Man, and that was only 15!

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man i wonder what this cathode-ray tube was used for

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rest in peace, "Smokin'" Joe Lieberman

you were a worthy adversary back in the old days

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US Klonoa 2 magazine ad.

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North American Namco arcade token from the turn of the millennium. I have one from about 2004 that I keep in my wallet for good luck. Exchange rate was a quarter to a Namco token. It would take 138,023,980,000,000 tokens to pay off the U.S. national debt as of this writing. I got two extra tokens I can give to help cover it but I still need to keep that lucky one I got in my wallet.

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North American Namco arcade tickets from the 1990s. Never had enough patience to save up the zillion it took to win the stereo or whatever they had

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just learned that Akira Toriyama has passed away. rest in peace.

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to me bull nakano is the ideal woman. randy savage was right about her.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Robot Band PicPac (ロボットバンド・ピクパク)!

They were a real-life animatronic band built by Namco in 1985, and performed at Namco’s Japanese amusement centers. For those living outside of Japan, you may recognize them from their in-game appearance in Namco Museum Vol. 4, released in 1996 for the original Playstation.

During their time in the mid-80s, PicPac had two hit songs, which they performed on stage and were really quite a treat. Here, I present both of those songs for you.

Maji Mentaro was their host and manager, Maria Socket was the lead singer and keyboardist, Strobo Gonzales was on drums, Digital Tome III was on guitar, and The Castanets rounded out the group as chorus.

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screenshots of some sick official Soul Calibur themes for your Windows 95 computer

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Naniwa - Osaka, Japan

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cool pac-man art with a transparent background

"i'll kill you in real life" - the pac-man, not me

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posers say "would" but only a reall ass deadass motherfucker like me can say "has"

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Here's something that was drawn by a real human being. It's the very real art used for Tekken: The Motion Picture (1998).

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Pac-Man's illustrious wrestling career