Which Happened First?

Release of Sokoban

Release of Sokoban
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Sokoban is a puzzle video game created in 1981 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi. In Sokoban, the player pushes boxes in a warehouse to get them onto storage locations. The game is viewed from a top-down perspective. Boxes can only be pushed, never pulled, and only one box can be pushed at a time.

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Which happened first?

Timeline

  1. Release of Missile Command1980
  2. Release of Castle WolfensteinSeptember 1981
  3. Release of Frogger1981
  4. Release of E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialDecember 1982
  5. Release of Pitfall!April 20, 1982
  6. Release of Sokoban (this page)1982

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