Chase H.Q.

Chase H.Q. (チェイス H.Q.) is an arcade police pursuit racing game developed and published by Taito, released in 1988. It is one of the most iconic late-80s pseudo-3D arcade racers inspired by police-chase action films. Players take the role of detective Tony Gibson and partner Raymond Broady, driving an unmarked black Porsche 928 under instructions from dispatcher Nancy. Gameplay is split into two phases: catch up to the fleeing suspect within the time limit, then repeatedly ram the criminal’s vehicle until it is disabled. Turbo boost (3 uses per stage) helps close the gap while dodging civilian traffic, with branching route choices available on highways. Powered by sprite scaling and parallax scrolling for pseudo‑3D road depth, it features digitized voice samples and classic synth soundtrack. There are five unique pursuit missions. Later ported to Mega Drive, Game Boy, Game Gear, X68000 and FM Towns, followed by Chase H.Q. II. The arcade ROM runs on MAME emulator, a legendary Taito police chase arcade title.

These are the default keys. Every arcade board has a different number of buttons and means different things by them. The rows above are buttons 1–6 on the board: on Neo Geo boards (The King of Fighters and friends) A/B/C/D are buttons 1–4, Metal Slug uses only 1, 2 and 4 (shoot / jump / grenade), and Pac-Man uses none at all. Six-button fighters with three punches and three kicks (Street Fighter II and the like) get a different layout from the core: light punch U, medium punch I, heavy punch Q, light kick J, medium kick K, heavy kick E. Click the gamepad icon 🎮 in the player toolbar, then “Remap keys” to open the emulator’s own control settings (keyboard and gamepad, saved automatically). Gamepads are detected automatically. On phones you get on-screen buttons.