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By Ben Hafen / March 31st, 2015

Bandai Namco Games has announced that it will open the rights to seventeen of its older intellectual properties beginning this April. Game companies and developers will be permitted to use or alter characters, stories, and music from these games as they please. Bandai Namco hopes that doing this will bring back interest in these properties.

The seventeen properties are as follows:

Pac-Man

Xevious

Dig Dug

Galaga

Battle City

Tower of Babel

Galaxian

Dragon Buster

Star Luster

Sky Kid

Wonder Momo

The Tower of Druaga

Valkyrie no Bōken

Yōkai Dōchūki

Wagan Land

Genpei Tōma Den

While developers and game companies will be required to register and apply with Bandai Namco before using these IPs, the company plans to accept all applications, except for games with offensive content. Applications will initially be open to Japanese developers only, though Bandai Namco is considering later opening applications to foreign and independent developers. In addition, they will receive a percentage of the sales for any games using these properties.

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About Ben Hafen Ben is a 20-year-old college student who joined the Operation Rainfall crew in 2015. Amongst his hobbies are writing stories, singing, raging against post-game bosses in Etrian Odyssey Untold, and biking everywhere in the hopes of hatching a shiny Carbink.

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