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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.
Sega Akihabara Building 2, known as GiGO until 2017, a former large 6 floor Sega game center on Chuo Dori, in front of the LAOX Aso-Bit-City in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, in 2006 Video games are a major industry in Japan, and the country is considered one of the most influential in video gaming. Japanese game development is often identified with the golden age of video games and the country is ...
In particular, the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series remain popular today, Final Fantasy more so in the West and Dragon Quest more so in Japan. In 1988, Dragon Quest III introduced a character progression system allowing the player to change the party's character classes during the course of the game, and keep a character's stats and skills ...
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.
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.
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 VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past [a] is a 2000 Japanese role-playing video game developed by Heartbeat [5] and ArtePiazza, [6] and published by Enix for the PlayStation. The game was produced by Yuji Horii, [5] who has presided over the Dragon Quest series since its inception.