Bandai Namco Entertainment

Namco-Bandai Holdings is a company that sometimes works with Nintendo. Originally, Namco and Bandai were two seperate companies; however, they have recently merged with each other.

The first Mario game that Namco had developed was Mario Superstar Baseball, which was Mario's first baseball game. They later produced an arcade Mario Kart game, which came to be known as Mario Kart Arcade GP. The playable characters consisted of the Big Eight; however, Namco also decided to throw in three of their own original characters: Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, and Blinky.

Namco-Bandai is currently producing a Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, which will include Waluigi and a Tamagotchi named Mametchi. This will be the first Mario game in which Bandai has been involved; a Tamagotchi appearing is due to Tamagotchi being a series created by Bandai.

Trivia

 * In Pac-Man VS., one of Namco's games, the announcer has the voice of Charles Martinet, who does Mario's and many other character's voices in the Mario Series.