Though a handful of kids certainly fell in love (the author of this piece included), Dragon Warrior generally sank to the bottom of NES owners' libraries and was buried under the deluge of Super Mario, Mega Man, and Castlevania games available at the time. When Nintendo of America prepared to release the localized version of the game-exactly 30 years ago this month-it immediately ran large-scale promotions in hopes of getting North Americans to fall in love with RPGs as hard as Japan.ĭespite Nintendo's efforts, Dragon Quest-which became Dragon Warrior in the West because D&D publisher TSR held the rights to the Dragon Quest name at the time-hardly caught fire in North America. Dragon Quest had a slow start in Japan, but it picked up tremendous steam after its publisher, Enix, promoted the game in Japan's widely distributed Shonen Jump magazine. It's grown from a simple adventure where a legendary hero slowly trades blows with monsters to an epic that travels through an enchanted world for dozens of hours.īut it takes effort for a fantasy protagonist to build themselves up from a stick-swinging slime-slayer to a grown warrior who's fully outfitted to fight scourges that slither up from the deepest pits.
DRAGON QUEST 3 SNES BOX ART SERIES
Like the mythical creatures it takes its name from, the role-playing game series has become bigger and wiser in its passing years.
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