when was namco created
In 1972, Nakamura changed its name to Namco, and, in 1974, acquired the rights to handle Atari's coin-op games in Japan. This was merely a taste of things to come. The world's first major taste of Namco came in 1978 with Gee-Bee, and judging by the game's relative obscurity today, it must have been a tad unpleasant.