Magical Chase

Magical Chase is a horizontal-scrolling shooter video game developed by Quest Corporation for the TurboGrafx-16. It was published by Palsoft in Japan on November 15, 1991, and by Turbo Technologies Inc. in North America in July 1993. A version for Microsoft Windows was released in 1998, followed by a version for the Game Boy Color (GBC) in 2000. The plot follows Ripple, an apprentice witch, accompanied by her star maiden friends Topsy and Turvy, on a quest to retrieve the demons she accidentally released from a forbidden book. The player controls Ripple, fighting enemies and avoiding obstacles, while collecting crystals to purchase items in shops.

Magical Chase was created by the same Quest staff that would later work on Ogre Battle, Tactics Ogre, and Final Fantasy Tactics. It was designed by art director Hiroshi Minagawa. The team wanted to create a shooter due to the popularity of the genre at the time, but they also wanted something unique and to explore how far they could go with the PC Engine, so production took a long time. The soundtrack was composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata.