The first in the long running series of games, beginning with the Nintendo Entertainment System and spanning the SNES, the Gameboy, and even the Playstation, as well as having mini-spinoffs which are a lot like Pokémon.

This, the original Dragon Warrior, starts you off in the throne room of the King of Tantegel Castle. He names you the descendant of the legendary Erdrick, who once possessed the Ball of Light. It has been stolen, the Dragonlord's minions roam the lands, and the Princess is kidnapped. You, the descendant of the legendary hero, must confront evil and save the continent.

This game features a single-character interface with single-monster battles. Do not think this means it will be easy…you can easily go in over your head. You must make sure to buy equipment, as for some odd reason, trained descendants of heroes do not have any starting equipment.

This game was once released by Nintendo along with subscriptions of Nintendo Power magazine, so it is not extremely rare. However, it is a good place to start learning of the series, as it began everything. Also, the rest of them are considered hard to find. If you get one, consider yourself lucky!

I was working on this at the same time as Final Fantasy Epic, but this project was much more ambitious: A full scale RPG hack.

I redid all the graphics, the text and the dungeon/town levels. I also altered the monster stats along with item prices and such.

This is the precursor to Dragoon X Omega. The “Omega” comes from the fact that it was the final iteration of Dragoon X, and as a result ended up with a bulky name for its sequel. ;)

Dragoon X Omega was mainly done because my friend Alex (Who is now a Geo Physicist) played through Dragoon X, and commented on how badly the graphic I did were. And lord, was he right: The enemies in particular are terribly drawn, but visual art has *never* been my strong suit.

The overworld and music are the same as Dragon Warror, as Townedit had no OW support at the time, and no one to my knowledge even knew where to start regarding NES music hacking in this era.

It’s an interesting footnote if you like the DXO series, and that’s about it…

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