Carry Lab is a defunct Japan

Japan

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ese software house

Software house

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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

Word processing

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 software and computer and video games. They also ported popular Taito

Taito Corporation

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 titles such as Chack'n Pop

Chack'n Pop

is an arcade game released by Taito in 1983, considered to be an ancestor of Bubble Bobble due to the appearance of many similar enemies and Bubble Bobble's duplication of a Chack'n Pop level. The arcade rom set also contains unused graphics for the mechanical wind-up "Zen-Chan" that later appeared...

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

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n shores as Mystery Quest for the Nintendo Entertainment System

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. The game, published by Taxan

Taxan

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, 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

Famicom Disk System

The was released on February 21, 1986 by Nintendo as a peripheral for the Family Computer console in Japan. It was a unit that used proprietary floppy disks for data storage. It was announced, but never released, for the North American Nintendo Entertainment System...

 games set up by Square Co.

Square Co.

was a Japanese video game company founded in September 1983 by Masafumi Miyamoto. It merged with Enix in 2003 and became part of Square Enix...

Carry Lab survived for a few years afterwards re-releasing their old games.