Sokoban
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Sokoban official fan kit banner | |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Developer(s) | Thinking Rabbit Unbalance |
| Publisher(s) | Thinking Rabbit Unbalance |
| Creator(s) | Hiroyuki Imabayashi |
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| First release | Sokoban (倉庫番) 1982 |
| Latest release | The Sokoban 2021 |
Sokoban is a puzzle video game in which the player pushes boxes around in a warehouse, trying to get them to storage locations. The game was designed in 1981 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi and first published in Japan in 1982 by his company Thinking Rabbit for the NEC PC-8801 computer. It was later ported to various platforms and followed by new titles. It became popular in Japan and internationally, inspiring unofficial versions, a subgenre of box-pushing puzzle games, and artificial intelligence research.