In Memoriam 2017
On this page we pay tribute to all the people who worked or participated in the world of video games and passed away in 2017.
You will view people by the year they died, remembering a little more about their work and their importance in the history of games.
Masaya Nakamura
Masaya Nakamura was a Japanese executive and founder of Namco.
He founded his company on June 1, 1955, calling it Namamura Seisakusho, Ltd., with an initial capital of $3,000. He began producing machines for department stores.
In 1974, he bought the Japanese division of Atari from Nolan Bushnell to enter the arcade market. He renamed his company Namco in 1977, and from then on began to launch his first titles that would make the company one of the most dominant in Japan.
Nakamura passed away at the age of 91 on January 22, 2017.