Quintet, based in Tokyo, Japan, was founded by Tomoyoshi Miyazaki and Masaya Hashimoto, who previously worked on Nihon Falcom's Ys games. Quintet was most active in the 1990s and had a strong relationship with Enix, on the Super Nintendo, and in the late 2000s Quintet appears to have gone inactive, their website shut down in 2008. Quintet's most critically-acclaimed games are Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma, often known as the "Gaia" series.