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By September 2008, total worldwide shipments of Dragon Quest VIII surpassed 4.9 million copies, [40] of which over 430,000 were from the North American release. [41] Dragon Quest VIII is the biggest selling game ever for the PlayStation 2 in Japan. [42] It was the first Dragon Quest game to receive a score of 39 out of 40 from Famitsu. [43]
Dragon Quest, [a] previously published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, [b] is a series of role-playing video 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).
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The game centers around the character Yangus, one of the main characters in Dragon Quest VIII, as a child. [4] Described as a "plump bandit", he becomes involved with his father Yampa's gang of thieves when a mysterious jug is brought home.
Due to a trademark conflict, the series was originally marketed in North America as Dragon Warrior. In 2003, Square Enix registered the Dragon Quest trademark in North America, ending the Dragon Warrior moniker.
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.
DragonQuest is a fantasy role-playing game originally published by Simulations Publications (SPI) in 1980. Where first generation fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) restricted players to particular character classes, DragonQuest was one of the first games to utilize a system that emphasized skills, allowing more individual customization and a wider range of options.
TSR, Inc. published four starter sets for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Shannon Appelcline noted that by 1993 the Basic D&D line ended and was replaced by games such as Dragon Quest (1992) and DragonStrike (1993), and that "There was another abrupt change the next year when TSR put out First Quest (1994) by Richard Baker, Zeb Cook, and Bruce Nesmith.