Dragon Quest

A role-playing game published by Enix for the Famicom in 1986. It was developed by Chunsoft, designed by Yuji Horii, and scored by Koichi Sugiyama. It was released in North America as Dragon Warrior.

Yuji Horii began the project at Chunsoft in 1985, drawing inspiration from Wizardry and Ultima, with the goal of making an RPG accessible to Japanese console players.

Developer

Chunsoft

Publisher

Enix, Nintendo (NA)

A single hero explores the overworld, towns and dungeons, fighting randomly encountered enemies one at a time in turn-based, menu-driven battles to earn experience and gold.

Platform

Family Computer

CPU

Ricoh RP2A03 (MOS 6502-based) 1.79 MHz

Media

ROM cartridge

Bits (period term)

8-bit

Platform specifications are sourced on the console page.

Japan

27 May 1986[1]

Director

Koichi Nakamura

Producer

Yukinobu Chida

Designer

Yuji Horii

Composer

Koichi Sugiyama

Credits are limited to what the sources state.

• GAME1985

  

  Family Computer

  Super Mario Bros.

  スーパーマリオブラザーズ

  Release

  JP 1985.09.13

  Dev

  Nintendo R&D4

  Genre

  Platformer / Action

• GAME1986

  Famicom Disk System

  Metroid

  メトロイド

  Release

  JP 1986.08.06

  Dev

  Nintendo R&D1, Intelligent Systems

  Genre

  Action-adventure

• GAME1986

  Famicom Disk System

  The Legend of Zelda

  ゼルダの伝説

  Release

  JP 1986.02.21

  Dev

  Nintendo R&D4

  Genre

  Action-adventure

The original version sold more than 2 million copies worldwide, including 1.5 million in Japan and 500,000 in the United States (English Wikipedia).

Series: Dragon Quest

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