Trivia / Dragon Quest

• Market-Based Title: The original release and the Game Boy Color re-release were titled Dragon Warrior due to TSR holding the trademark to Dragon Quest. Since Square Enix has subsequently acquired the trademark from them, any future release will bear the DQ name.
• No Export for You: Europe didn't get an official release of the game until the mobile port in 2014, almost thirty years after its original release in Japan.
• Port Overdosed: The game has been released over and over again since its debut in 1986.
• Referenced by...:
  • My Impossible Soulmate: Late in the prologue, Chiaki has an Imagine Spot comparing her, her crush Fumiko, and her boyfriend Kenta Maeda to the Hero, Princess Gwaelin and the Dragonlord respectively.
  • Being Ichiban's favorite game, this game is referenced quite a bit in Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Toshihiro Nagoshi, the game's director, even went the extra mile and got permission to mention the game by name.
• Remade for the Export: The North American version of the game received a graphical facelift as well as a battery-backed save instead of a 20-character long password system used in the Japanese version.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: For a long time, a rumor persisted that the Dragonlord's true form was an invention of the North American localization, and that in the Japanese version, the final boss was his pet dragon avenging its master. No version of the game ever stated the Dragonlord had a pet, and the original Famicom version even shows a message roughly translating to "The Dragonlord has revealed his true form!"
• What Could Have Been: The first game would have featured multiple player characters to choose from, but the idea was scrapped due to hardware limitations.

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