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Above: Puck Monster Unit. Photo courtesy of Retro Games UK 

The January 30th news that Masaya Nakamura, founder of video game company Namco, had died back on the 22nd probably didn’t hit as hard as Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s passing in 2015, for a lot of people.

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TOKYO—Masaya Nakamura, the “Father of Pac-Man” who founded the Japanese videogame company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died.

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TOKYO - Masaya Nakamura, the "Father of Pac-Man" who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died.

Perhaps that’s understandable—Iwata was a well-known figure, died young of a terrible illness, and presided over Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom. Those properties are as big as a Disney franchise today, successfully evolving over generations, while many of Namco’s biggest brands, like Pac-Man, Ridge Racer and Galaxian/Galaga, feel curiously archaic by comparison.

Perhaps that’s just in my head, I don’t know.

It’s not like Namco—now Bandai Namco Entertainment following a 2006 merger—isn’t publishing contemporary heavyweights, including Dragon Ball and Tekken games and, in the West, the Dark Souls series. But certainly, when I think of