Quest

Quest Corp. (株式会社クエスト) was incorporated on July 7, 1988 [1], spun off from the consumer (i.e. console) division of Bothtec, a publisher and developer of computer games. (Yasumi Matsuno, who worked at Quest from 1989 until 1995, once noted that Bothtec's development division had been dissolved by this point, and there were no in-house developers from then on. [2] He also did not recall any former Bothtec developers working at Quest between 1989 and 1997. [3])

Bothtec was merged into Quest in 1990 [4] and became Quest's computer division. The Bothtec brand continued to be used on computer releases. [5] Bothtec was spun off into an independent company on September 2, 1997. [6]

Quest was most recently headed by Makoto Tokugawa (徳川誠) and based in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. [7] The company's game software development business was acquired by Square on June 19, 2002. [8] Tokugawa would later head Nintendo second-party developer (now subsidiary) NDcube around 2008. [9]

Note: Various conversions of Magical Chase, Ogre Battle, and Tactics Ogre were released, but development was handled by other groups.

Research Methods: Actual mentions, code comparisons, online resources, shared staff

Famicom/NES

• Maharaja (JP Publisher: Sunsoft)

Graphics: M.P.Run

• Maten Douji / Conquest of the Crystal Palace (JP Publisher: Quest; US Publisher: Asmik)
• Musashi no Bouken (JP Publisher: Sigma Enterprises)

Famicom Disk System

• Wakusei Aton Gaiden (JP Publisher: Kokuzeichou [National Tax Agency]) [10]

Game Boy

• Battle Pingpong (JP Publisher: Quest)
• Legend: Ashita e no Tsubasa (JP Publisher: Quest)
• Taiyou no Tenshi Marlowe: Ohanabatake wa Dai Panic (JP Publisher: Technos)

This game was included on Quest's works list and turned up in a code comparison, but the final game scrubs any reference to Quest including staff credits. (Only Technos staffers are credited.) However, a leaked English-language prototype (Philip & Marlowe in Bloomland) features the Quest logo/name and the original staff credits. (The prototype is dated 1991; the game was not released until 1994.) [11]

Game Boy Advance

• Tactics Ogre Gaiden: The Knight of Lodis / Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis (JP Publisher: Nintendo; US Publisher: Atlus)

Mega Drive/Genesis

• Double Dragon II: The Revenge (JP Publisher: Pal Soft)

Nintendo 64

• Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber (JP Publisher: Nintendo; US Publisher: Atlus)

English Version Programming & Graphics: Dual

PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16

• Magical Chase (JP Publisher: Pal Soft; US Publisher: TTI)

Super Famicom/Super NES

• Densetsu no Ogre Battle / Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen (JP Publisher: Quest; US Publisher: Enix)
• Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (JP Publisher: Quest)

Windows

• Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu V (JP Publisher: Bothtec)

Links

• Official Website (Internet Archive Wayback Machine) (Japanese)
• Developer table entry (Japanese)