was a

video game developer A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with em ...

and

publisher Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

based in Takarazuka,

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

, founded by Hiroyuki Imabayashi. The company is best known for being the original publisher of ''

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 ...

''. Falcon, a Japanese software company, currently owns the trademark and copyright to Thinking Rabbit's work.

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(archived) Video game companies established in 1982 Defunct video game companies of Japan Video game publishers 1982 establishments in Japan {{Japan-videogame-company-stub