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Dragon Quest, [a] previously published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, [b] is a series of role-playing games created by Japanese game designer Yuji Horii (Armor Project), character designer Akira Toriyama (Bird Studio), and composer Koichi Sugiyama (Sugiyama Kobo) and published by Square Enix (formerly Enix).
Koichi Sugiyama (すぎやま こういち, Sugiyama Kōichi, April 11, 1931 – September 30, 2021) was a Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator.He was best known for composing for the Dragon Quest franchise, along with several other video games, anime, film, television shows, and pop songs.
Dragon Quest is a series of role-playing video games created by Yuji Horii, which are published by Square Enix (formerly Enix).The first game of the series was released in Japan in 1986 on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and Dragon Quest games have subsequently been localized for markets in North America, Europe and Australia, on over a dozen video game consoles.
Enix's Dragon Quest VI introduced an innovative scenario with a unique real world and dream world setting, which seems to have had an influence on the later Square role-playing games Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy X. Dragon Quest VI also improved on the inventory management of its predecessors with the addition of a bag to store extra items. [233]
Maya and Meena were both created by the game's creator, Yuji Horii, and designed by the game's artist, Akira Toriyama. [citation needed] Horii decided to change up the player's expected structure of the fifth chapter by having the characters join the Hero's party in reverse order of the earlier chapters, meaning the sisters were set to be the first to join the Hero. [1]
Yuji Horii (堀井 雄二, Horii Yūji, born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese author, video game designer, writer and director best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest franchise, [1] supervising and writing the scenario for Chrono Trigger, and The Portopia Serial Murder Case, released in 1983 as one of the first visual novel adventure games.
Chunsoft was founded by Koichi Nakamura, a video game designer and programmer who had worked with Enix, including the popular Dragon Quest franchise until Dragon Quest V. The "Chun" in the company name is from the first kanji Naka of the company founder's name; Naka is read as "Chun" in Japanese Mahjong.
Dragon Quest was released in Japan in 1986 for the Famicom, the MSX, [48] [49] the MSX2, and the PC-9801. [50] Dragon Warrior was released in North America by Nintendo of America under the direction of Satoru Iwata with help from Horii in August 1989 – months before the Japanese release of Dragon Quest IV.