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Retronauts Episode 148: Namco's Arcade History

Retronauts

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy, Chris, and Benj take a comprehensive journey through the catalog of an arcade legend: Namco. From their humble beginnings through mega-hits like Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and Galaga, it's wall-to-wall coin-op classics up in this episode. This is the first of a series of Namco retrospectives and covers the years 1978-1982!

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you own a small business, busy is music to your ears.

0:06.0

Busy means you're hopefully driving lots of...

0:08.5

But what if with every...

0:10.0

American Express was busy too, helping you promote your business,

0:13.8

or bringing in new customers who spend a little more?

0:16.6

What if they also gave your customers rewards when they spend with you?

0:20.0

Yep, you'd get even more...

0:22.6

Busy is good for business. We'll be with you on that.

0:25.6

Search Accept Amix today.

0:27.8

In Roman Guided Team Class, T's and C's apply.

0:30.0

As we can return, Outs, are you gonna Namco my way?

0:32.8

Hi everyone, welcome to yet another episode of RetroNots.

0:58.5

We keep doing these, you keep listening, it's great.

1:01.4

I am Jeremy Parish and with me this week we have Bench Edwards and...

1:06.3

Chris Sims or Puckman, as I'm known in the entire regionally.

1:09.7

Only in Japan.

1:13.3

And they did release some merchandise under the name Puckman.

1:18.0

The game originally did ship with that name and there is a cabinet, an original Puckman

1:22.2

cabinet at Namco's headquarters in Tokyo, or there was, I don't know if they moved the

1:26.4

buildings a couple of years ago, I haven't been to the new one, but the old one had it in

1:29.9

the lobby and if you try to take a picture of it, this old man would come out and say,

1:34.6

please do not take photos in the lobby, except he was hidden in Japanese, but in a way that

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