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2 [[caption-width-right:350:Sunsoft!]]
3[[http://sunsoft.jp/en Sunsoft]] is the video game division of Sun Electronics Corporation (Sun Denshi), a Japanese company founded in 1971.
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5In 1978, Sun Electronics began producing UsefulNotes/{{Arcade Game}}s. The company never became a major player in the arcades, though Sunsoft continued sporadically to develop arcade games into the 1990s.
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7In 1985, Sun Electronics began releasing games for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Nintendo Family Computer]] under the Sunsoft label. A few years later, the company began to distribute NES games in the U.S. through Sun Corporation of America. In 1988, Sunsoft formed a partnership with Tokai Engineering (TEC); it was actually a dummy corporation created by Sunsoft to circumvent Nintendo’s limitations on publishing how many games on the Famicom/NES in a year, coinciding with a dramatic improvement in their quality. Sunsoft also became heavily interested in producing {{Licensed Game}}s and console ports of computer games.
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9The changing economics of video game development were not kind to Sunsoft. In 1995, the company escaped bankruptcy, selling off a few games to be released by Creator/{{Acclaim}}. A more serious decline became evident around 2001, when its international distribution channels closed. What saved Sunsoft from extinction was the advent of online game services; as well as making many of their older games available on Nintendo's UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole and other online platforms, Sunsoft has released a small number of original downloadable games. Most of their mobile output in the 2000s and 2010s was ''TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}}'' and others in the PuzzleGame genre, but since the 2020s, a lot them are highly casual and simplistic 3D games similar in style to others known for receiving millions of downloads. While not as well-known or received as their previous output, one of them being called ''VideoGame/ClockTower: Ready for the Next'' that uses chibi sprites and locations inspired by ''VideoGame/ClockTower1995'' led to hopes on social media of them developing a sequel or remake in that series. That said, those rudimentary mobile games have been removed in 2023.
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11!!Games developed/published by Sunsoft include:
12[[index]]
13* ''VideoGame/AeroTheAcroBat'' series (developed by Iguana Entertainment)
14* ''VideoGame/AstraSuperstars''
15* ''VideoGame/AtlantisNoNazo''
16* ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'' series
17* ''VideoGame/BayRoute''
18* ''VideoGame/ChameleonTwist'' series (developed and released in Japan by Japan System Supply)
19* ''VideoGame/ClockTower3'' (co-developed with Creator/{{Capcom}})
20* ''VideoGame/DazeBeforeChristmas'' (publisher)
21* ''VideoGame/DeaeTonosamaAppareIchiban''
22* ''VideoGame/GalaxyFight''
23* ''VideoGame/Gimmick1992''
24* ''VideoGame/HardEdge'' (also known as ''T.R.A.G. - Mission of Mercy'' in North America)
25* ''VideoGame/{{Hebereke}}''
26** ''VideoGame/{{Ufouria}}'' is the European release of ''Hebereke''.
27* ''Ikki''
28** ''Ikki Unite''
29* ''VideoGame/JourneyToSilius''
30* ''VideoGame/{{Kangaroo}}''
31* ''VideoGame/PowerQuest'' (developed by Japan System Supply)
32* ''VideoGame/QuestBriansJourney'' (developed by Imagineer in Japan, developed by Sunsoft in America)
33* ''VideoGame/TheWingOfMadoola''
34* ''Trip World''
35* ''VideoGame/WakuWaku7''
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37!!Licenced Games
38* ''[[VideoGame/TheAddamsFamily The Addams Family: Uncle Fester's Quest]]''
39* ''VideoGame/{{Batman|Sunsoft}}'' games
40* ''VideoGame/BugsBunnyRabbitRampage''
41* ''VideoGame/DaffyDuckFowlPlay''
42* ''VideoGame/DaffyDuckTheMarvinMissions''
43* ''VideoGame/DisneysBeautyAndTheBeastBellesQuest''
44* ''VideoGame/DisneysBeautyAndTheBeastRoarOfTheBeast''
45* ''VideoGame/Gremlins2TheNewBatch''
46* ''VideoGame/JusticeLeagueTaskForce''
47* ''VideoGame/LooneyTunes''
48* ''VideoGame/LooneyTunesAcmeAnimationFactory'' (SNES game that uses the SNES Mouse)
49* ''VideoGame/LooneyTunesBBall'' (Developed by Sculpted Entertainment, later known as [[Creator/{{Acclaim}} Acclaim Salt Lake City]])
50* ''VideoGame/PorkyPigsHauntedHoliday''
51* ''VideoGame/RoadRunnersDeathValleyRally'' (developed by ICOM Simulations)
52* ''VideoGame/SpyHunter1983''
53** ''VideoGame/SuperSpyHunter''
54* ''VideoGame/SpeedyGonzalesLosGatosBandidos''
55* ''[[VideoGame/FantasyZone Super Fantasy Zone]]''
56* ''[[VideoGame/TazManiaSunsoft Taz-Mania]]'' (developed by Visual Concepts for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] and Palmer Productions for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy)
57* ''The Death and Return of Superman'' (developed by Creator/BlizzardEntertainment)
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59!Cancelled/Unreleased games
60* ''VideoGame/{{Sunman}}''[[note]][[{{Vaporware}} This game was never released.]][[/note]]
61* ''Sylvester and Tweety''
62* ''Wile E.'s Revenge''
63[[/index]]

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