Sunsoft (サンソフト, サン電子株式会社, San Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese video game development company founded on April 16, 1971 as a division of Sun Corporation, itself a division of Sun Electronics, or Sun Denshi (サン電子) in Japan (its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sunsoft of America, though games they published showed a logo that read only SUNSOFT). Sunsoft's history in video games began in arcades; they had several hits in the early 1980...
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Sunsoft (サンソフト, サン電子株式会社, San Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese video game development company founded on April 16, 1971 as a division of Sun Corporation, itself a division of Sun Electronics, or Sun Denshi (サン電子) in Japan (its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sunsoft of America, though games they published showed a logo that read only SUNSOFT). Sunsoft's history in video games began in arcades; they had several hits in the early 1980s such as Arabian. In the latter half of the 1980s Sunsoft began developing original games and technology for the home video game console market, with emphasis mostly on the NES. Sunsoft had gone international at that time, and it had the publishing might to secure major licenses of the day (such as Batman and The Addams Family).
Outside Japan, the definite golden era for the company was the 8-bit NES, on which their games were widely considered state of the art in graphical and aural prowess. Sunsoft was slow to transition to 16-bit consoles,...
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