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!

This graphics hack is an improvement over the original enemy sprites and palettes.

Most of the changes have been done in the palettes, and some pixels have been edited. Also, the skin tone of the warrior and the NPC's has been edited to match the rest of the NES Dragon Warrior series.

In general, the larger improvements have been done on the more powerful enemies, and the smaller improvements have been done on the weaker enemies. Image files have been included to show the sprites before and after, if you would like to see the changes without playing the game.

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