* Corvus, the final boss from the video game Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

* 1986 – Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.

* Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire ( 1998 )

* Quest for Glory Collection Series ( 1997 ), a re-release of Anthology with a Dragon Fire demo and sample soundtrack.

After releasing several unsuccessful games for the Famicom, Square relocated to Ueno, Tokyo in 1987 and developed a role-playing video game titled Final Fantasy, inspired by Enix's success with the genre, Dragon Quest ( later released in North America as Dragon Warrior ).

* In the 2009 video game Dragon Quest IX, the player must harvest fyggs from Yggdrasil, the World Tree, to attain passage into the realm of the Almighty.

Other examples of storytelling voice-overs can be heard in Annie Hall, Gattaca, Fight Club, Megamind, Ratatouille, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Tangled, The Magic School Bus, The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk's New Groove, Blade Runner, The Rugrats Movie, The Shawshank Redemption, Big Fish, How to Train Your Dragon, Moulin Rouge !, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Young Winston, Rugrats, Raising Arizona, Goodfellas, Clash of the Titans, and Star Quest: The Odyssey.

* May 27 – the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest is released in Japan.

As the technology improved, polyphonic and often orchestral soundtracks replaced simple monophonic melodies starting in the late 1980s and the soundtracks to popular games such as the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series began to be released separately.

* Endor, the most successful nation in the video game Dragon Quest IV

Also, the main antagonist in Final Fantasy VI, Kefka Palazzo has a jester-like appearance and attitude ; as do the main villains in the video games Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, Persona 2 and Super Paper Mario.

" 1UP also criticized the title's similarities to Dragon Quest, but in the end declared EarthBound a game " worth experiencing.

" Nintendojo and Gamasutra also criticized the similarities to Dragon Quest, with Gamasutra declaring EarthBound an " unabashed Dragon Quest clone ..." Despite the criticism, Gamasutra regarded the title " as one of the greatest RPGs on the SNES.

Nintendo Powers staff has praised the game, saying that Phantasy Star " was the first RPG to break out of the Dragon Quest / Dungeons & Dragons mold of generic Arthurian fantasy by introducing sci-fi elements.

Though many games have had beautiful music to accompany their gameplay, one of the most important games in the history of the video game music is Dragon Quest.

The DragonQuest trademark prevented the Dragon Quest video game series from being published in North America under that title.

In 2003, Square Enix registered the Dragon Quest trademark in the US.

* Dragon Quest

As well as giving its classical concerts, the LPO has made several film soundtracks, including Lawrence of Arabia, Philadelphia, The Mission, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as well as some CD albums of video game music from the Square Enix series Dragon Quest composed by Koichi Sugiyama, Symphonic Poem: Hope for Final Fantasy XII, the soundtrack for Xenosaga Episode I composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and even Elkie Brooks ' Screen Gems, the entire album of which was used in modern films.

Yuji Horii drew inspiration from the Wizardry, Mugen no Shinzou ( Heart of Phantasm ), and Ultima series of games for making the popular Japanese role-playing game Dragon Quest.

Wizardry also established the command-driven battle system with a still image of the monster being fought that would be emulated in later games, such as The Bard's Tale, Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.

Significant film appearances include The Snow Creature ( 1954 ), Half Human ( 1955 ), The Abominable Snowman ( 1957 ), Yeti-il gigante del 20. secolo ( 1977 ), Snowbeast ( 1977 ), Monsters, Inc. ( 2001 ), and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ( 2008 ), Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon, ( 2008 ) Yetiko Khojima ( Yeti ; in search of Yeti, 2010 ).

Dreamworks ' commercial success continued with three Shrek sequels, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, and How to Train Your Dragon.

* a character in the Game Boy Color video game, Dragon Warrior Monsters

* Warden Trump, a Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker character

Enix was further hurt by a delay of Dragon Quest Monsters 2 in Japan in 2001, dropping its first-half 2001 fiscal year profit by 89. 71 %.

Enix America, Inc., Enix's last American localization subsidiary, was organized in 1999 after the release of Dragon Warrior Monsters through a joint venture with Eidos.

Several GBC titles do have a small Super Game Boy compatibility icon located on the back of their packaging, such as for Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey.

One of the special borders, for Dragon Warrior Monsters

or Dragon Warrior Monsters, as it was known in North America, is a spin off series of the Dragon Quest games.

at: 1999 text :" Dragon Warrior Monsters "

at: 2001 text :" Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 "

at: 2002 text :" Dragon Quest Monsters 1 + 2 "

at: 2003 text :" Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart "

at: 2007 text :" Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker "

at: 2010 text :" Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 "

at: 2012 text :" Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D "

Dragon Warrior Monsters, the first game in the series, was released in 1998 in Japan and in North America and the PAL region the next year for the Game Boy Color.

The Japanese version was called Dragon Quest Monsters.

Its sequel, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2, also for the Game Boy Color, was released in 2001 in both Japan and North America.

Dragon Quest Monsters 1 + 2, a remake of these two games with updated graphics and interface, was released in 2002 in Japan, for the PlayStation.

The game is compatible with the i-Mode adapter for PlayStation, allowing players to upload monsters to the i-Mode cellular phone version, Dragon Quest Monsters i.

Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart is the third game in the series, released in Japan in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance.

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, for the Nintendo DS, was released in Japan in 2006 and was the first in the series to feature 3D graphics.

Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 was released in Japan on April 28, 2010 and a US release on September 19, 2011, as revealed at the 2011 E3.