is a defunct

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. Thanks to the efforts of entrepreneur and computer engineer Yoichiro Hirano, the company evolved from the "MyCon Club" into a real business in 1981. As Carry Lab, the company developed popular word processing software and computer and video games. They also ported popular

Taito is a Japanese company that specializes in video games, toys, arcade cabinets and game centers, based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The company was founded by Michael Kogan in 1953 as the importing vodka, vending machines and jukeboxes into Japan. It b ...

titles such as ''

Chack'n Pop is an Platform game, platform arcade game developed and released by Taito in 1984. In the game, the player controls a small yellow creature, Chack'n, with the objective being to retrieve hearts from a cave, all while avoiding the enemies contained ...

'' to Japanese computers. One of their games, '' Hao-kun no Fushigi na Tabi'', did make it to

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n shores as ''Mystery Quest'' for the

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. The game, published by Taxan, was cut and reduced in difficulty. Carry Lab's funding system was not set up well, and the programmers didn't see eye to eye with the sales managers, so the company's core team left in 1986. Afterwards, Carry Lab joined the Disk Original Group, a collective publishing house for Famicom Disk System games set up by Square Co. Carry Lab survived for a few years afterwards re-releasing their old games.

Games

External links

RetroPC.NET Carry Lab Page
Defunct video game companies of Japan Video game companies established in 1981 Video game development companies Video game publishers {{Japan-videogame-company-stub