Sucker Punch Productions

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## Information

### Product/s

*Rocket: Robot on Wheels*
*Sly Cooper* series
*Infamous* series
*Ghost of Tsushima*

### Owner/s

Independent company (1997-2011)
SIE Worldwide Studios
(2011-present)

### Website

Official website

**Sucker Punch Productions** is an American video game company founded in 1997 and based in Bellevue, Washington. They created *Rocket: Robot on Wheels*, the *Sly Cooper* series, the *Infamous* series and *Ghost of Tsushima*. They have worked exclusively with Sony Interactive Entertainment since 2000 and were purchased by SIE in 2011 following the release of *Infamous 2*.

## History

### Beginning

According to the company's website, Sucker Punch "started at the roots of Microsoft, where the co-founders all worked in a variety of productivity and software development applications. All shared a love for video games, yet only one had game development experience." The group decided to leave Microsoft in 1997 and became an independent company. The company name came as one of several proposed by the company that they would not have been able to use at Microsoft due to that company's policies. Co-founder Chris Zimmerman showed the list to his wife for her opinion, and she responded that she didn't care "as long as it isn't Sucker Punch." Considering the opinion of a middle-aged woman would be completely contrary to the demographics of their target audience, they selected that name for the company.

### *Rocket: Robot on Wheels*

In 1999, Sucker Punch released their first game, *Rocket: Robot on Wheels*, for the Nintendo 64, a platformer featuring a robot named Rocket.

### *Sly Cooper*

After signing a new deal with Sony in 2000, the company created *Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus* in 2002. After the success of the game, the company developed two sequels: *Sly 2: Band of Thieves* in 2004, and *Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves* in 2005. This series centered around the titular raccoon character, Sly Cooper, and his gang Bentley and Murray, as they performed heists around the world against various criminal organizations and villains.

### *Infamous*

A few months after releasing *Sly 3*, Sucker Punch started preparing ideas to the new game. They went to Sony with several different game ideas and Sony decided to start the development of *Infamous*. In 2009 and 2011, *Infamous* and *Infamous 2* were released, respectively. *Infamous: Festival of Blood* was also released in 2011, but only as a downloadable title. A few years later, they released *Infamous: Second Son* in 2014 for the PlayStation 4 console. They also released *Infamous: First Light* the same year, but it is only available via a digital download.

### *Ghost of Tsushima*

Following the release of *Infamous: Second Son* and *Infamous: First Light*, Sucker Punch began working on *Ghost of Tsushima*, a stealth-action game taking place in 1274 during the Mongol invasion of Japan. Players take control of Jin, one of the last living samurai as he defends the island of Tsushima from the invaders.

## Gallery

Sucker Punch's logo as it appears in *Ghost of Tsushima*Sucker Punch's first logo, replaced in 2013
## References

1. ↑ Eaton, Nick (August 2, 2011). Sony buys Bellevue’s Sucker Punch video-game studio. *Seattle Post-Intelligencer*. (archive) Retrieved 2019-04-14.