After the merger with game developer and amusement facility operator Namco, Bandai Company, Limited is now under the management of Bandai Namco Holdings and a member of Bandai Namco Group. After group reorganisation in 2006, Bandai heads the group's Toys and Hobby Strategic Business Unit (SBU).[3]
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History
Since the 1980s, Bandai has become the leading toy company of Japan, and to this day, has the main toy licenses in Japan to popular properties including Daikaiju, Ultraman, Super Robot, Kamen Rider, the Super Sentai and Power Rangers series (which they took part in creating), Gundam and many others.
The management of Bandai and Sega discussed a merger in the late 1990s, but the merger was later cancelled, citing "cultural differences".[citation needed]
Former subsidiaries
Toys and Hobby SBU
Bandai USA
Bandai USA (doing business as Bandai America Incorporated) is the American distribution arm of Bandai that makes toy products for the U.S. market and manufactures Power Rangers, Big Hero 6, Digimon, and Ben 10 toys. Other past products include- Alienators: Evolution Continues
- Astro Boy
- Beetleborgs
- Ben 10
- Big Hero 6
- Cardcaptor Sakura
- Cyclonians
- Dick Tracy
- D.I.C.E.
- Dinozaurs
- Digimon
- Dragon Ball
- Dragon Ball Z
- Doraemon
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- Godaikin
- Godzilla
- Gundam
- Kamen Rider
- Masked Rider
- Mega Man
- Magical DoReMi
- Metal Heroes
- One Piece
- Power Rangers
- Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
- Sailor Moon
- Saint Seiya - for American distribution, it was relabeled Knights of the Zodiac
- Sega Pico
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Super Sentai
- Tamagotchi
- Teen Titans
- Thundercats
- Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
- The Tick
- The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
- Ultimate Muscle
- Ultraman
- Unazukin
- Wedding Peach
- Xyber 9: New Dawn
- Zatch Bell!
Visual and music contents SBU
Bandai Visual
Main article: Bandai Visual
Bandai Visual Company, Limited, produces and distributes many popular anime and tokusatsu titles. These titles include Cowboy Bebop, Big O, Outlaw Star, Please Teacher!, Escaflowne, and the popular Gundam, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, and Super Sentai series. Its subsidiaries include the Emotion Music Company, Limited, in which the logo is the Moai, a statue found on Easter Island. It now heads the Visual and Music Contents SBU. Their American division, Bandai Visual USA
was absorbed into Bandai Entertainment in July 2008. Bandai
Entertainment is no longer acquiring licenses to new anime. As of March
1, 2013 Bandai Entertainment is no longer distributing home video in
North America except for some.Bandai Entertainment
Main article: Bandai Entertainment
Bandai Entertainment, Inc. was involved in the distribution of numerous anime in North America, as well as manga and other merchandising ventures related to anime. Its headquarters in the United States were located in Cypress, California.Carddass
Carddass is the Bandai subsidiary responsible for releasing trading card games based on popular Bandai franchises. This includes games such as the Gundam War Collectible Card Game based on the Gundam metaseries, as well as a Gash Bell (Zatch Bell!) TCG, Naruto CCG, Rangers Strike (Super Sentai series, Kamen Rider series, Metal Hero series), Neon Genesis Evangelion Ultra Galaxy Daikaijyu Battle (Ultra series) and most recently their most successful to date, the Battle Spirits Trading Card Game.Sunrise
Main article: Sunrise (company)
Game contents SBU
Bandai Games (now Bandai Namco Games)
Bandai Games produced and distributed video games based on Bandai properties including Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front, Gundam Wing: Endless Duel and Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo.In the early 1990s, Bandai published games for Nintendo in the United Kingdom, including Street Fighter II on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.[4]
In the beginning of 2005, Bandai Games opened a United States office as a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandai America which, prior to that, handled the publishing of video games in North America itself.
On March 31, 2006, it merged with Namco Ltd. and was renamed Bandai Namco Games Inc.
Motorsports
See also: 2006 Super GT season
In 2006, Bandai entered Super GT with Lexus SC, and won 2006 Super GT Season GT500 Class Round 3 Overall Winner and ranked on fifth place in GT500 Class.Consoles
During the early 1980s, Bandai distributed a number of videogame machines. In 1982 the Bandai Arcadia, a variant of the Emerson Arcadia 2001, was released in Japan by Bandai. There were also four Japan-exclusive game releases which were the only known Arcadia titles written by other companies than UA Ltd. They also released local variants of the Intellivision and vectrex game consoles.
Bandai produced a running mat called the Family Fun Fitness System for the Nintendo Entertainment System starting in 1986. A series of games was released both in the US and in Japan, including Athletic World and Stadium Events for the NES. Shortly after its release, Nintendo purchased the rights to the FFF mat in North America, replacing it with their own redesign, the Power Pad. In order to maintain branding continuity, Stadium Events was pulled from shelves after a short period of availability at Woolworth's stores. Due to the fact that the game was pulled from shelves and discontinued before many copies were sold, Bandai's Stadium Events is universally accepted as the rarest licensed NES game released in North America.[5][6] A shrinkwrapped copy of the game sold for $41,270 on eBay in February 2010.[7] The sister game to Stadium Events, called Athletic World was initially released with a label that indicated compatibility with the Family Fun Fitness mat, but was later re-released with an updated label that mentions the Power Pad instead.[8] Stadium Events was not released again, but instead was slightly modified and relaunched as the Power Pad pack-in game, World Class Track Meet.
In the '90s, Bandai teamed up with Apple to make The Pippin. They also made their own game console, the Playdia. Neither was a mass-market success. In 1999, Bandai created the WonderSwan portable game system. It, and its update, the WonderSwan Color, sold modestly well, but were unable to seriously challenge the dominant Game Boy Color and later, the Game Boy Advance. It was discontinued in 2003.
Handheld systems
Bandai has also released a series of LCD games including Tuttuki Bako (released in Japan in 2008) and the LCD Solarpower series (released in the 1980s in both regions).
Games developed/published by Bandai
Bandai Super Vision 8000- Beam Galaxian
- Gun Professional
- Missile Vader
- Othello
- PacPacBird
- Space Fire
- Submarine
- Patsy Duck
- Sailor Moon
- Sailor Moon Heart
- Anpanman
Bandai RX-78
- Gundam: Luna Tsu no Tatakai
Playdia
- Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon S Quiz Taiketsu! Sailor Power Kesshuu
- Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS Sailor Moon to Hiragana Lesson!
- Bishōjo Senshi Sailormoon SS Sailor Moon to Hajimete no Eigo
- Bishōjo Senshi Sailormoon SS Youkoso! Sailor Youchien
Sega Game Gear
Game Boy
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
- SD Sengokuden 2: Tenka Touitsu Hen
- Welcome Nakayoshi Park
- Kaijū-ō Godzilla
- Adventures of Gilligan's Island
- Akuma-kun: Makai no Wana
- Athletic World
- Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach
- Chubby Cherub
- Dick Tracy
- Dig Dug II[9] (The NES version of Dig Dug was only released in Japan, until the Wii Virtual Console release in the US in June 2008.)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Dragon Power
- Dragon Spirit
- Dragon Spirit: The New Legend
- Dynowarz
- Frankenstein: The Monster Returns
- Galaga
- J. League Super Top Players
- Legends of the Diamond (Typo on the top label states Legends of the Daimond [sic])
- Monster Party
- M.U.S.C.L.E.
- Ninja Kid
- Shooting Range
- Stadium Events (Later pulled from shelves and retooled as 'World Class Track Meet')
- Street Cop
- Super Team Games
- The Rocketeer
- Toxic Crusaders
- World Class Track Meet
- Xevious
- Power Rangers Samurai
- Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop
- Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 2
- Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3
SNES
- Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon S Kurukkurin
- Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon S Kondowa Puzzle de Oshioikiyo!
- Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon SuperS Fuwa Fuwa Panic
- Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Fuwa Fuwa Panic 2
- Captain Tsubasa J: The Way to World Youth
- Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden
- Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden 2
- Dragon Ball Z Super Butoden 3
- Gon
- Kamen Rider
- Mazinger Z
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
- Panic in Nakayoshi World
- Power Rangers Zeo: Battle Racers
- Ruin Arm
- Shōnin yo Taishi wo Idake!!
- Ultraman: Towards the Future
- Captain Tsubasa J: Get In The Tomorrow
- Digimon World
- Digimon World 2
- Digimon World 3
- Digimon Rumble Arena
- Dragon Ball:Final Bout
- From TV Animation - One Piece: Grand Battle! 2
- Kids Station: Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon World Chibiusa to tanoshii mainichi
- Samurai Deeper Kyo
- Scooby-Doo Arcade
- .hack
- D.I.C.E.
- Digimon Rumble Arena 2
- Digimon World 4
- Digimon World Data Squad
- Eureka Seven vol.1: New Wave
- InuYasha: Feudal Combat
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs. Zeon
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo
- Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Never Ending Tomorrow
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam
- MS Saga: A New Dawn
- One Piece: Grand Adventure
- One Piece Grand Battle!
- Scooby-Doo Adventure
- Space Sheriff Spirits
- The Fast and the Furious, 2006 (Published as Bandai Namco Games and distributed by Universal Interactive)
- Zatch Bell! Mamodo Battles
- Zatch Bell! Mamodo Fury
- Ultraman Nexus
Sega Saturn
Nintendo GameCube
- Chibi-Robo! (in Japan)
- One Piece: Grand Adventure
- One Piece Grand Battle!
- Zatch Bell! Mamodo Battles
- Zatch Bell! Mamodo Fury
- Digimon Rumble Arena 2
Virtual reality / Augmented reality
Xbox 360
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2
- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3
- Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
- Dragon Ball Raging Blast
- Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2
- Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi
- Power Rangers: Super Samurai (Kinect video game)
- Ra.One
- Zegapain NOT
- Zegapain XOR
- Dark Souls
- Dark Souls 2
Microsoft Windows
- Dark Souls (ported)
- Dark Souls 2
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See also
References
- * Dig Dug II box art, also see Moby Games entry.
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