Namco

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Pom Pom as Pooka

Namco is a popular video game company founded by Masaya Nakamura in 1955. They are best known for making video games and arcade games like Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and Galaxian.

References

• Main Page 13 — There were some sound effects from the Atari 2600 adaption of Pac-Man, an arcade game made by Namco in 1980. The Atari 2600 version came out two years later.
• TROGDOR! — The intermission part with Trogdor chasing the peasants is a resemblance to the arcade game Pac-Man when he chases the ghosts during the intermission.
• Scrolling Shooter Games Menu — The layout for level 1 resembles Xevious.
• Email caffeine — Strong Bad mentions Tekken.
• Email the facts — The tune Homestar Runner sings to in the Easter egg is the same tune as the intermission theme from Pac-Man.
• Email redesign — On the DVD commertary, Matt mentions Pole Position, a racing made by Namco.
• Doomy Tales of the Macabre — Pom Pom dresses up as Pooka, an enemy from the game Dig Dug. The Popsmith destroys him with a pixelated pump, one of the ways that Pookas are killed in the game.

See Also

• Nintendo
• Sega