Chase H.Q.

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Description

As an undercover agent of Chase Headquarters, your job is to patrol the streets and track down five criminals. You are given a mission briefing before you start which gives information on the suspect and what car they drive. Then you drive across the city without crashing into other cars, and catch up with the criminal's car. To arrest the suspects, you must keep bumping into their car until it is no longer functional. And you have to do this under a strict time limit. You can't afford to crash into cars or buildings or you waste time getting on the road again.

However, once you've caught up with your suspect, you are given more time. Your car is also equipped with turbo boosts, which you can use to gain extra speed if you are way behind the criminal. Each arrest is based on a "suspicion".

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Alternate Titles

• "Taito Presents Chase H.Q." -- US Game Boy title
• "Taito Chase H.Q." -- Console title
• "タイトーチェイスH.Q." -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Chase H.Q. series
• Theme: Law enforcement

User Reviews

Get from A to B then Bang!	Arcade	FatherJack (62724)
Let's go, Mr. Driver, to the bin	Commodore 64	Katakis | カタキス (42793)

Critic Reviews

Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amstrad CPC	Mar, 1990	97 out of 100	97
Crash!	ZX Spectrum	Dec, 1989	95 out of 100	95
The Games Machine (UK)	Amstrad CPC	Mar, 1990	89 out of 100	89
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Amiga	Dec, 1989	9.4 out of 12	78
Retro Archives	TurboGrafx-16	Apr 20, 2020	14 out of 20	70
GamesCollection	SEGA Master System	Nov 23, 2007	6 out of 10	60
Retro Archives	NES	Apr 20, 2020	11 out of 20	55
Amiga Power	Amiga	May, 1991		33
Nintendo Land	Game Boy	2003	30 out of 100	30
Your Sinclair	Arcade	Dec, 1988	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

Amstrad 128K extras

In 128K machines, the Amstrad CPC version of the game will load all stages in one sitting. It will also play some speech at certain spots. Other Ocean Software games that had similar "extras" for these computers were "RoboCop" and "Dragon Ninja".

Awards

• EMAP Golden Joystick Awards 1990 (published by ACE #33, 1990/6)
  • Winner Best 8-Bit Soundtrack

Celebrity cameos

The characters in the original game covers and in the loading screens are supposed to be Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas. The game was not a licensed "Miami Vice" title, but it seems like it wanted to capitalize on a established TV show. And well, the stars of the show did pursue criminals in a supercar, but that one was a Ferrari.
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Related Web Sites

• IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)
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