* 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.

Super Fire Pro Wrestling X Premium was the first game to include such a feature, and later fighting games such as Fighter Maker, Soulcalibur III, Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 adopted the concept.

BioWare is currently working on Dragon Age III, along with an additional project about which no details have yet been revealed.

The last published book of Gordon R. Dickson's semi-historical Dragon Knight series is titled The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent, and concerns Joan's attempts to reconcile the Black Prince with his father Edward III during the first years of the Black Death in England.

In a 1639 ode celebrating his accession to the chiefship of Clancahill, Donal III O ' Donovan is referred to as the " Dragon of Clíodhna ".

* Romance of the Three Kingdoms III: Dragon of Destiny

* Romance of the Three Kingdoms III: Dragon of Destiny

* Romance of the Three Kingdoms III: Dragon of Destiny ( 1992 )

The chronological order of the first three Dragon Quest games is: Dragon Quest III, Dragon Quest, and Dragon Quest II.

Erdrick's legend in the Dragon Warrior series was completed in Dragon Warrior III when the King of Alefgard bestows the " Order of Erdrick ", the country's highest honor, upon the hero at the end of the game.

Playing Dragon Warrior III with the name " Erdrick " is impossible in the original release and " Loto " in the GBC remake, as the game prevents players from continuing if the name is used.

In addition to the trilogy, a castle in the Dragon Quest III remakes is also called Zenith, although the layout differs from the castle in the Tenku series.

William Shakespeare refers to St. George and the Dragon in Richard III ; act v, also in King Lear ; act I.

* Dragon Age III: Inquisition ( PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, Mac OS X )

* Shanghai Beach of the Dragon Tiger Battle ( 上海灘龍虎鬥 ), theme song from TV series The Bund III ( 1980 )

While the majority of Technōs Japan's console games were still licensed to other companies such as Tradewest ( Double Dragon ), Acclaim ( Double Dragon II and III ), CSG Imagesoft ( Super Dodge Ball ) and even Nintendo ( Super Spike V ' Ball and Nintendo World Cup ), American Technōs also managed to published a few console games: namely River City Ransom and Crash ' n the Boys: Street Challenge for the NES, Super Double Dragon ( co-published with Tradewest ) and Combatribes for the Super NES and Geom Cube for the PlayStation.

* Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI: Awakening of the Dragon

* Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI: Awakening of the Dragon

* Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI: Awakening of the Dragon ( 1998 )

In addition, Dragon Quest VI and VII include monster classes.

Dragon Quest V and VI monsters can be selected by the player to join the player's party and fight in battles.

Zenithia, also called Zenith Castle or Zenith, is a floating castle that first appears in Dragon Quest IV ; it is used as a descriptor for several elements in Dragon Quest IV, V and VI.

In Dragon Quest VI Zenithia is sealed by Demon Lord Durran, and a large hole is left in its place in the " Dream World ".

When the Dream World returns to its natural state in Dragon Quest VI, Zenithia is the only part that remains, floating above the " real " world.

In Dragon Quest VI for the Nintendo DS, there's a town where you can find many NPCs with name reminiscent of famous people.

Dragon Warrior VII is the seventh installment of the popular Dragon Quest series of role playing games, and is the successor to's Dragon Quest VI for the Super Famicom.

The Ranking Association allows the player to compete for the highest stats, like the Beauty Competition from Dragon Quest VI.

The player can also catch monsters, although they are only displayed in the Monster Park, unlike in Dragon Quest V and VI, where monsters fought in the party.

Dragon Warrior VII uses a class system for learning abilities, similar to that of Dragon Quest VI.

As was done for Dragon Quest VI, the original sound version was bundled with the symphonic suite in a two-disc set called Dragon Quest VII: Eden no Senshitachi Symphonic Suite + OST.

* Dragon Quest VI Hero