* 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.

Common elements persist throughout the series and its spinoff titles: turn-based combat ; recurring monsters, including the Slime, which became the series ' mascot until the English version of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King ; a text-based menu system ; and random encounters ( in the main series ), until Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies.

In Dragon Quest VIII players can defeat and recruit monsters to fight in an arena.

Romancing Saga 3 featured a storyline that could be told differently from the perspectives of up to eight different characters and introduced a level-scaling system where the enemies get stronger as the characters do, a mechanic that was later used in Final Fantasy VIII, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Silverfall, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3, and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

In late 2004, he finished and released the Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King Original soundtrack, and the Dragon Quest VIII Symphonic Suite.

In 2005, Sugiyama was holding a series of concerts in Japan with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with music from Dragon Quest VIII, as well as his classic compositions from the past.

* Dragon Quest VIII: Jessica, Yangus, and Kukule ( Angelo )

The game was released in Europe under the title Dragon Quest: Chapters of the Chosen, omitting the number IV in a similar fashion to the European version of Dragon Quest VIII.

This version also uses the new spell naming convention first used in Dragon Quest VIII, such as the spell Beat from Dragon Warrior IV is now Whack.

Ragnar, Healie, and Torneko all later appear as cameos in Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King in the Monster Arena.

# Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King ( 2004, Square Enix, for PlayStation 2 )

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, known in Japan as and in PAL regions as Dragon Quest: The Journey of the Cursed King, is a role-playing video game developed by Level-5, localized and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2.

Dragon Quest VIII uses cel-shading textures for the characters and scenery and is the first game in the series to have fully 3D environments.

Dragon Quest VIII follows the silent Hero, the main character, and his party of allies as they journey towards the goal of defeating the wicked Dhoulmagus.

Dragon Quest VIII has enjoyed much success since its release, both in Japan and in the US.

Dragon Quest VIII retains the menu based battle system that is a staple for the series.

In Dragon Quest VIII, the player controls the Hero in a fully three-dimensional environment, utilizing the left analog stick or D-pad on the PlayStation controller to move him.

New to Dragon Quest VIII is the tension system, which allows the player to choose the " Psyche Up " command for a character during battle.

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Any character that finished any game in the series ( except Dragon Fire, the last in the series ) could be exported to a more recent game ( Shadows of Darkness has a glitch which allows one to import characters from the same game ), keeping the stats and parts of the inventory.

Attractive female characters like Bulma from Dragon Ball or Nami from One Piece, with exaggerated features are also common ( see fan service ).

Stieg Larsson in the three book ' Millennium ' Series ( The girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest ) The main characters ' name in the series is Lisbeth.

* In Spyro: Year of the Dragon, one of the playable characters is a club-wielding yet eloquently-spoken Yeti named Bentley.

Richard and his first wife, Isabel Marshall, appear as characters in Virginia Henley's historical novels, The Marriage Prize and The Dragon and the Jewel, and in Sharon Kay Penman's historical novel Falls the Shadow.

* The White Dragon 1978, by Anne McCaffrey ( 1978 ; although published prior to Dragondrums, The White Dragon continues the adventures of certain Dragondrums characters ; McCaffrey recommends reading Dragonsong, Dragonsinger and Dragondrums before The White Dragon ; The White Dragon incorporates McCaffrey's story " A Time When ")

She is one of the principal characters in the 1983 novel The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford.

The expansion adds six new characters ( Dragon Hunter, Dragon Priestess, Dragon Rider, Minotaur, Fire Wizard and Conjurer ), a dual-sided Inner Region board ( one side featuring the original Inner Region, but with new tactics, the other side featuring the Dragon Tower ), as well as new cards and tokens.

Noggin has received an accolade achieved by very few Norse characters – he appeared with the Ice Dragon reading him a note from Nogbad, on a British commemorative postage stamp ( SG1804 ) in January 1994.

In most Dragon Quest games, players control a party of characters that can walk into towns and buy weapons, armor, and items to defeat monsters outside of the towns: on the world map or in a dungeon.

* Manuals containing information and hints vital to the completion of the game, like answers to riddles ( Conquests of Camelot, King's Quest 6 ), recipes of spells ( King's Quest 3 ), keys to deciphering non-Latin writing systems ( Ultima series, see also Ultima writing systems ), maze guides ( Manhunter ), dialogue spoken by other characters in the game ( Wasteland, Dragon Wars ), excerpts of the storyline ( most Advanced Dungeons and Dragons games and Wing Commander I ), or a radio frequency to use to communicate with a character to further a game ( Metal Gear Solid ).

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