LOS ANGELES: Masaya Nakamura (pic), the arcade entertainment pioneer who pioneered smash hit video game "Pac-Man" has died, age 91. He founded the giant gaming company Namco and for 10 years Namco was also owner of the Nikkatsu film company. Having attended technical university in Yokohama, Nakamura reportedly founded Namco in 1955 as a company operating mechanical horses on the roof of a department store. Japan's oldest film studio was once famous for its pink-eiga, the free-ranging soft porn genre that gave many contemporary Japanese film makers their career start. Nakamura is credited as executive producer on several of its titles ("Warm Water Under a Red Bridge," "A Stranger of Mine".)

Source: The Star January 30, 2017 11:37 UTC