Quest Corporation

Quest Corporation

Infobox Company
company_name = Quest Corporation
company_
company_type = Merged with Square Co.
foundation = July 1988
location = Tokyo, Japan
key_people = Yasumi Matsuno
Hiroshi Minagawa
Akihiko Yoshida
industry = Interactive entertainment
products = See complete products listing.
revenue =
num_employees =
homepage =
nihongo|Quest Corporation|クエスト was a Japanese video game company founded in 1988.

Quest is best known for its critically acclaimed tactical role-playing game series "Ogre Battle". In 1995, key members Yasumi Matsuno, Hiroshi Minagawa, and Akihiko Yoshida left Quest to join Square,cite web | author=IGN Staff | title=Square Completes Acquisition of Quest | publisher=www.ign.com | date= 19 June 2002 |url=http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/362/362710p1.html | accessdate=2006-05-20] where they developed "Final Fantasy Tactics" and "Vagrant Story", and have worked on "Final Fantasy XII" as part of Square Enix. In 2002, Quest was purchased by Square;cite web | author=IGN Staff | title=Square Completes Acquisition of Quest | publisher=www.ign.com | date= 19 June 2002 |url=http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/362/362710p1.html | accessdate=2006-05-20] although the purchase reunited some of Quest's developers with their former colleagues, it likely signaled the end of the "Ogre Saga" franchise as at Square Enix the former Quest staff continued to work on the Final Fantasy Tactics sequels Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (2003) and Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (2007) while the Ogre Saga creator Yasumi Matsuno left the company in 2005.

List of games

PC Engine

*1991
**"Magical Chase"

Nintendo Entertainment System

*1988
**"Daisenryaku"

*1989
**"Maharaja"

*1990
**"Conquest of the Crystal Palace"
**"Dungeon Kid"
**"Musashi no Bouken"

Game Boy

*1990
**"Battle Ping Pong"
*1991
**""
*1994
**""

TurboGrafx 16

*1991
**"Magical Chase"

uper Nintendo Entertainment System

*1993
**""
*1995
**""

ega Saturn

*1996
**""
**""

PlayStation

*1997
**""
**""

Nintendo 64

*1999
**""

Game Boy Color

*2000
**"Magical Chase"

Neo-Geo Pocket Color

*2000
**""

Game Boy Advance

*2002
**""

ee also

*Atlus
*Square Co.

References

External links

* [http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025131.html Quest company profile at IGN]


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