Dragon Warrior Reviews

This is the game that started my love of RPG. I look back and I still smile thinking about playing this game and leaving my game system on for days at a time.

This is in my eyes the birth of RPG genre, even though I never got into the game too much. I got this at about the same time as I got Final Fantasy (FF was released by Square, and Dragon Warrior was an Enix release - Square Enix rings a bell, anyone?) and Final Fantasy blew it out of the water. Still, FF was a newer game, so I should judge DW on its own merit, since it had no competition when it first came out.

The graphics were primitive, the reading was a torture, and the battle scenes were text-based with just a bit of flashing to signify a hit (FF took a bit leap forward by actually showing the characters swinging the swords, etc..). But all the RPG elements were there to make this a very early addictive release (talk, search, use item, magic, weapons, armor). Ah, the good ol' days, when you had to rely on imagination when playing a game.