The letter calls Bandai Namco’s actions “another transparent effort to punish AtGames for entering into its August 2019 agreement with the GCC individuals, to sully AtGames’ reputation, to disrupt AtGames’ business relationships and to artificially manufacture leverage in the ongoing negotiations between the parties.” Pac-Man mini-cabinets under those claims.ĪtGames representatives declined further comment to Polygon, but did provide a copy of their attorney’s response to Bandai Namco’s counsel. Pac-Man products, and created or even distributed Ms. It follows a federal lawsuit from Bandai Namco alleging that AtGames misrepresented itself as licensed to make Ms.
Pac-Man arcade game,” Ping-Kang Hsiung, the chief executive of AtGames, said in a statement put out this morning.ĪtGames, known for its line of Flashback and Flashback Blast plug-and-play retro gaming devices, announced the transaction early this morning. “As part of our ongoing initiative to be caretakers of important cultural touchstones, we are privileged to gain these valuable rights pertaining to the iconic Ms. The deal was consummated sometime in August. AtGames acquired the royalty interest owed to GCC’s seven rights holders - effectively, the right to be paid whenever the Ms. Pac-Man in 1982 and later sold the creation to Bally/Midway and Namco, confirmed to Polygon that the transaction had taken place. Pac-Man intellectual property, roughly a week after Bandai Namco sued the company and alleged AtGames had interfered in negotiations to shore up a tangled rights issue.Ī representative of General Computer Corporation, the company of college-kid developers who first programmed Ms.
AtGames, the makers of throwback mini-consoles and arcade cabinets, has acquired an interest in the nearly 40-year-old Ms.