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    Dragon Warrior

    Game » consists of 7 releases. Released May 27, 1986

    Rescue the princess and defeat the evil Dragonlord in this landmark RPG from Enix.

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    The birthplace of the JRPG 0

    Dragon Warrior(Nintendo Entertainment System) by viking_funeral on March 20, 2016

    Dragon Quest is not the first RPG to be made in Japan. That honor arguably belongs to Sword & Sorcery (1983), The Dragon & Princess (1982), or Dragonstomper (1982). However, it is the the first RPG in Japan to truly popularize the genre, with sales in the millions, and would have its style and characteristics copied and expanded upon to the point where it would give rise to a specific subgenre of RPGs: The JRPG.Now, pedants will be quick to note that technically any RPG made in Japan is ...

    3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

    The birthplace of the console RPG. 0

    Dragon Warrior(Nintendo Entertainment System) by hubz on December 17, 2014

    The template by which all other console RPG's have come from. This game was carefully crafted to take a complicated genre of RPG games and make it easy for the masses to grasp and understand and enjoy. It successfully accomplished these goals and became a cultural phenomenon in Japan as a result spawning a huge series of games and spinoffs as well as an entire genre.While it hasn't aged well you can see how many of the things we take for granted today began here. It's still a relatively enjoyabl...

    1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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