Sunsoft 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 Corporation in Japan . Sunsoft's history in video games began in arcades with two video games released in 1978: Block Challenger and Block Perfect. They later had several arcade hits in the early 1980s such as Arabian, Ikki and Kangaroo. 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 . Outside Japan, the definite golden era for the company was the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System , on which their games were widely considered state of the art in graphical and aural prowess.
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