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Sokoban is a series of puzzle video games in which the player pushes boxes around in a warehouse, trying to get them to storage locations. Hiroyuki Imabayashi created the first Sokoban game in 1981 as a personal project. That game was the basis for the first commercial release, published in Japan in 1982 by his company Thinking Rabbit for the NEC PC-8801 computer. Ports and new titles were released for various platforms over the years. Sokoban became popular in Japan and internationally, and the series has remained active, with the most recent title released in 2021. Sokoban has inspired unofficial versions, thousands of custom puzzles, similar games, and artificial intelligence research.

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