Dylan Cuthbert is a British-born video game developer based in Japan. Cuthbert began his career as a programmer at Argonaut Games when he was 17 years old, and was the main programmer of the original Star Fox, which was made possible through a partnership contract between Argonaut and Nintendo. He also developed Star Fox 2, which was never released. Cuthbert is credited under special thanks in Metroid II: Return of Samus. According to Cuthbert in 2017, he assisted with optimization and gave programming advice while he was working on X, also for the Game Boy. In 2001, Cuthbert founded Q-Games, a development studio in Japan that works closely with both Nintendo and Sony.