Sunsoft
Sunsoft (サンソフト [Sansofuto]) is the brand name used by the Sun Corporation, a Japanese video game developer and publisher.
The company was founded in 1971 as a manufacturer of electronic equipment under the name Sun Electronics Corporation. In 1978, the company published its first arcade cabinets. In 1985 they adopted the brand name Sunsoft for their games. In 1987 they created an American branch called Sun Corporation of America. In 1993 they changed company names to Sun Corporation. Around 1996 Sun Corporation of America closed. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Sunsoft was known for creating a lot of really creative games that were totally unique like Blaster Master and Mr. Gimmick, but in the 1990s they started focusing on making games for movies, and TV shows. They were often still pretty good, but lacked creativity. By the late 1990s, they stopped creating games all together and merely published or produced games. Lately, the company has been reduced to publishing semi-adult mahjong games for phones, which is quite depressing.
I have been playing Sunsoft games since the late 1980s with NES games like Spy Hunter and Blaster Master. One of the things I liked about Sunsoft games is they had a unique quality to their games. They used a custom audio driver for unique-sounding music, employed fantastic artists to make their graphics, and generally made pretty great games. It's a shame they stopped producing their own titles.
Games
Here are some of the games Sunsoft created that are important to me.
NES
SNES
Staff
These are people who worked at Sunsoft whose work I appreciate.
Links
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsoft - Wikipedia.
- mobygames.com/company/sun-corporation - MobyGames (Sun Corporation).
- mobygames.com/company/sun-corporation-of-america - MobyGames (Sun America)
