Editing Sokoban (section)

==Development==
''Sokoban'' was created in 1981 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thinking Rabbit - 1983 Developer Interview |url=https://shmuplations.com/thinkingrabbit/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=My conversation with Mr Hiroyuki Imabayashi |url=https://sokoboxes.com/articles/my-conversation-with-mr-hiroyuki}}</ref> The first commercial game was published for the [[NEC PC-8801]] in December 1982 by his company, [[Thinking Rabbit]], based in [[Takarazuka, Hyōgo|Takarazuka]], [[Japan]]. [[Video game port|Ports]] and new titles for various platforms appeared in subsequent years. ''Sokoban'' was a hit in Japan, selling over 400,000 copies before being released in the United States.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Lafe Low |magazine=[[inCider]] |title=News Line; Made in Japan |date=November 1988 |page=14 |url=https://archive.org/details/inCider_1988-11/page/n15/mode/2up}}</ref> In 1988, [[Spectrum HoloByte]] published ''Sokoban'' in the U.S. for the [[IBM PC]], [[Commodore 64]], and [[Apple II]] as ''[[Soko-Ban]]''.<ref>{{cite conference |author1=Austin Barr |author2=Calvin Chung |author3=Aaron Williams |title=Block Dude Puzzles are NP-Hard (and the Rugs Really Tie the Reductions Together) |page=1 |year=2021 |conference=CCCG (2021) |url=https://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cot6410/Spring2022/SampleTopics/Games/CLAIMED_JesseChehal_BlackDudePuzzles.pdf#page=2}}</ref> In 2001, the Japanese software company Falcon acquired the trademarks for ''Sokoban'' and Thinking Rabbit. Since then, Falcon has continued to develop and license official ''Sokoban'' games.