The mini-cabinet involved in Bandai Namco’s allegations against AtGames. Pac-Man copyrights in the United States.” Pac-Man copyrights,” the statement said, “as well as to enforce the Ms. Pac-Man mark and to reproduce, distribute, display, perform, create derivative works of and/or use the Ms. “BNEA has exclusive rights to use the Ms. However, the company did comment to underline the nature of the rights AtGames bought and the ones Bandai Namco has and controls. Reached by Polygon on Thursday afternoon, a Bandai Namco of America representative noted that the company does not ordinarily comment on pending litigation. “To wit, is so irritated by the fact that AtGames has entered into a contract with the GCC Individuals - an arrangement BNEA hoped to exploit for its own benefit through deceit and bad faith - that it has ordered its lawyers to attack AtGames by any means possible,” AtGames’ lawyer wrote. 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.
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