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Dragon Slayer (ドラゴンスレイヤー, Doragon Sureiyā) is a series of role-playing video games by Nihon Falcom. The first Dragon Slayer game is an early action role-playing game, released in 1984 for the NEC PC-8801 and ported by Square for the MSX. [ 1 ] Designed by Yoshio Kiya, [ 2 ] the game gave rise to a series of sequels, most of ...
Box office. $14.1 million. Dragonslayer is a 1981 American dark fantasy film directed by Matthew Robbins from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hal Barwood. It stars Peter MacNicol, Ralph Richardson, John Hallam, and Caitlin Clarke. It was a co-production between Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions, where Paramount handled North American ...
Dragonslayer. Saint George slaying the dragon, as depicted by Paolo Uccello, c. 1470. A dragonslayer is a person or being that slays dragons. Dragonslayers and the creatures they hunt have been popular in traditional stories from around the world: they are a type of story classified as type 300 in the Aarne–Thompson classification system. [1]
Dragon Slayer is an early example of the action role-playing game genre, which it laid the foundations for. [2] Building on the prototypical action role-playing elements of Panorama Toh (1983), created by Yoshio Kiya and Nihon Falcom, [10] as well as Namco's The Tower of Druaga (1984), [11] Dragon Slayer is often considered the first Japanese action role-playing game.
Sega Saturn (I+II bundle) JP: September 23, 1998. Genre (s) Role-playing game. Mode (s) Single-player. Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes[a] is a 1989 role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is the sixth game in the Dragon Slayer series and the first in The Legend of Heroes franchise. It was originally released in 1989 for the NEC PC-8801.
The Legend of Heroes. The Legend of Heroes, known in Japan as Eiyū Densetsu, [a] is a series of role-playing video games developed by Nihon Falcom. First starting as a part of the Dragon Slayer series in the late 1980s, the series evolved into its own decade-spanning, interconnected series with seventeen entries, including several subseries.
Dragon Slayer laid the foundations for the action role-playing game genre, influencing future series like Ys. [7] [8] [9] Xanadu was an early real-time action RPG with full-fledged character statistics, and it introduced several innovative gameplay mechanics, such as the Karma morality system, individual experience for equipped items, [3] a heavy emphasis on puzzle-solving, [9] equipment that ...
Dragon Slayer IV: Drasle Family [a], released outside Japan as Legacy of the Wizard, is a 1987 action role-playing platform video game developed and published by Nihon Falcom for the MSX2. A port for the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in Japan in July 1987 by Namco and internationally in 1989 by Broderbund . [ 3 ]