Trivia / Dragon Quest III

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: The Promontory of Olivia is directly south of roughly where the Crimean peninsula is in real life. Although the whole thing with Olivia, Errol and the Locket of Love is sometimes said to be a reference to Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn, there actually is a place called Olyva on the southern tip of the Crimean Peninsula, essentially where the strait is where the player must reunite the spirits of Olivia and Errol in order to proceed.
• Development Gag: Ortega's new sprite / design in the remakes, which originated in the North American NES localization of III, rather than the Famicom original.
• Fountain of Expies: You see a "Hero" or the concept of a "Demon King" in a Japanese fantasy story, and they will inevitably be based off of Erdrick and co. Heck, the whole game is this given its influence.
• Late Export for You:
  • North America didn't get the game until March of 1992, four years after its original Japanese release. For reference, Final Fantasy IV had already been out for months on the SNES.
  • Europe, once again, was late to the punch with Dragon Quest III. It got a release on smartphones two and a half decades after the original.
• No Export for You: The SNES remake was exclusive to Japan. Both the NES and GBC versions were never released in Europe, either.
• Referenced by...: El Goonish Shive: NP: "An NPC by any other name", the naming of the Cleric has tons of shout-outs running through Ellen's head◊, with the sixth-from-last line starting with "Dragon Quest III".

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