Thinking Rabbit

Thinking Rabbit at a Glance

Thinking Rabbit operated as a Japanese software house from 1982 until 1997. The company released nineteen games during this period with most titles developed in-house while two were published by them. Their catalog spans multiple decades, starting with seven releases in the 1980s and increasing to eleven games in the 1990s. They worked across a wide variety of hardware including the PC-8800 Series, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, Super Famicom, and several older Japanese systems like the Sharp X1 and MSX. The studio is best known for adventure games which make up ten of their total releases. Puzzle titles account for seven games while visual novels represent three entries. Their output also includes platformers, strategy games, and role-playing titles. The most famous work from this developer is Soko-Ban released in 1982. This puzzle game holds the highest rating on their record at 71.1 out of 100. Other notable titles include Boxxle from 1989 which scored 60 points and Superman from 1992 with a score of 63.9. The company also released Record of Lodoss War in late 1995 and Minton Keibu no Sousa File Doukeshi Satsujin Jiken near the end of their run in October 1997. Quality assessment based on available data shows mixed results for Thinking Rabbit. They have two games rated as good and two rated as mixed with no titles reaching the great category. The average rating across four rated titles stands at 61.9 out of 100. This indicates a pattern where some projects succeeded while others failed to impress critics significantly. Their final years saw releases like Maten Densetsu: Senritsu no Ooparts and Minakata Hakudou Toujou which did not achieve high scores compared to their earlier puzzle hits. The trademark and copyright for their work now belong to Falcon, a company linked to former president Hiroyuki Imabayashi.

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