| Period magazines treat the home versions as conversions of Taito's arcade game. Crash called the ZX Spectrum version Ocean's Christmas racing game and "the conversion of the brilliant Taito coin-op", and in December 1989 Famicom Tsushin announced that Chase H.Q., still popular in the arcades, had been ported to the Famicom. | p. 30 (image 30), Taito Chase H.Q. featurep. 30 (image 30), Taito Chase H.Q. feature | Magazine |
| The Famicom version, Taito Chase H.Q., came out in Japan on 8 December 1989 from Taito, according to a retrospective Famicom catalog; Famicom Tsushin's release schedule of 8 December 1989 also lists it on the 8th, and Taito's advertisement in the same issue gave 8 December as its planned release day and ¥5,900, before consumption tax, as its price. | p. 104 (image 104), release schedulep. 2 (image 2), Taito advertisementp. 2 (image 2), Taito advertisement | Book |
| The Famicom cartridge, code DTF-H9, is titled Taito Chase H.Q.: its manual thanks the buyer for the Taito game cassette "TAITO CHASE H.Q." and says that the game's names and story are fiction. The manual prints "FOR SALE and USE IN JAPAN ONLY", gives Taito's marketing department as the address for fan letters, and on its back cover names Disco (株式会社ディスコ) as maker and publisher and Taito as seller; Taito's advertisement in Famicom Tsushin credits the two companies the same way. | p. 2 (image 2), Taito advertisement | Manual |
| In the Famicom manual's story, a special investigation headquarters known as Chase H.Q. has been set up in Manhattan to deal with New York's crime, and detective Tony Gibson goes out on patrol with his partner; Nancy radios that a criminal is fleeing. The player's car is the unmarked patrol car of two detectives, the player is one of them, and the aim is to chase down and arrest the fleeing criminal by Nancy's radio messages. Taito's advertisement in Famicom Tsushin names the partner Raymond Broady. | p. 2 (image 2), Taito advertisement | Manual |
| Famicom Tsushin's feature on the Famicom version, in its 8 December 1989 issue, conceded that it is not the arcade game's equal but said that its sense of speed, thrills, and excitement are perfectly reproduced. | p. 30 (image 30), Taito Chase H.Q. featurep. 30 (image 30), Taito Chase H.Q. feature | Magazine |