is a

video game Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device to generate visual feedback. This fee ...

production company headquartered in

Shinagawa, Tokyo is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies. , the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per km2. The total a ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It was founded on August 14, 1985 by former

Namco was a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Na ...

employee

Masanobu Endō is a game designer, president of Game Studio and Mobile & Game Studio, and the director of Digital Games Research Association Japan. He formerly worked for Namco, where he created arcade games and is best known for ''Xevious'' and '' The Tower o ...

, who continued to develop projects for Namco through his company. The company later made a subsidiary company called , while the goodwill was transferred.

Notable works

Arcades

* '' Hopping Mappy'' * '' The Return of Ishtar''

GBC

* '' DT: Lords of Genomes''

NES The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the commonly known as the The NES, a redesigned version, was released in American ...

* ''

Family Circuit is a top-down racing video game released for the Family Computer in 1988 by Namco in Japan only. The game was developed by Masanobu Endō, who previously developed ''Xevious'' and ''The Tower of Druaga'', and his company Game Studio. A sequel ...

'' * '' Family Circuit '91'' * '' Itadaki Street: Watashi no Omise ni Yottette'' * '' Kidō Senshi Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble'' * '' Kai no Bōken: The Quest of Ki'' * ''

Tenkaichi Bushi Keru Nagūru is a fighting video game developed by Game Studio and published by Namco. It was released for the Famicom on July 21, 1989, only in Japan. It is one of the earliest versus fighting game A fighting game, also known as a versus fighting ga ...

'' * '' Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord'' * '' Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds''

Nintendo DS The is a handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. The DS, an initialism for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld games: two LCD screens working in tan ...

* ''

Ōkamiden ''Ōkamiden'', known in Japan as is an action-adventure game, action-adventure video game published by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is a spiritual successor, rather than a sequel, to ''Ōkami'', a game released originally ...

Turbografx-16 The TurboGrafx-16, known as the outside North America, is a home video game console designed by Hudson Soft and sold by NEC Home Electronics. It was the first console marketed in the fourth generation, commonly known as the 16-bit era, thoug ...

* ''

Tower of Druaga is a 1984 arcade action role-playing maze game developed and published in Japan by Namco. Controlling the golden-armored knight Gilgamesh, the player is tasked with scaling 60 floors of the titular tower in an effort to rescue the maiden Ki f ...

'' (original arcade and

Famicom The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit Third generation of video game consoles, third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the commonly known as the The NES, a redes ...

versions were developed by Namco.) * '' World Circuit''

Super NES The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), commonly shortened to Super NES or Super Nintendo, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in E ...

* '' The Blue Crystal Rod'' * ''

Super Family Circuit Super may refer to: Computing * SUPER (computer program), or Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer, a video converter / player * Super (computer science), a keyword in object-oriented programming languages * Super key (keyboard butt ...

'' * ''

Wizardry V ''Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom'' is the fifth scenario in the ''Wizardry'' series of role-playing video games. It was published in 1988 by Sir-Tech for the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PC compatibles (as a self-booting disk) . A port for ...

' * '' Wizardry VI''

Sega Saturn The is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994, in Japan, May 11, 1995, in North America, and July 8, 1995, in Europe. Part of the fifth generation of video game consoles, it was the successor to the succ ...

* '' Airs Adventure''

External links

Official Game Studio website

MobyGames profile
Software companies based in Tokyo Video game companies of Japan Video game companies established in 1985 Japanese companies established in 1985 {{japan-videogame-company-stub