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FM7 MSX PC88 PC98 X1

Game

Dragon Slayer

Released: Oct 1, 1984

Series:

Dragon Slayer

Genres:

Action Arcade Role-playing (RPG)

Themes:

Fantasy

Perspectives:

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes:

Single player

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Description from IGDB IGDB

Dragon Slayer is an action RPG designed by Yoshio Kiya and developed by Nihon Falcom. The title helped to pioneer the action RPG genre in Japan and spawned many sequels that would spin-off into their own franchises over time.

Wikipedia Description WIKIPEDIA

Dragon Slayer is an early example of the action role-playing game genre, which it laid the foundations for. Building on the prototypical action role-playing elements of Panorama Toh (1983), created by Yoshio Kiya and Nihon Falcom, as well as Namco's The Tower of Druaga (1984), Dragon Slayer is often considered the first Japanese action role-playing game. In contrast to earlier turn-based roguelikes, Dragon Slayer was a dungeon crawl role-playing game that was entirely real-time with action-oriented combat, combining arcade style action mechanics with traditional role-playing mechanics. Dragon Slayer featured an in-game map to help with the dungeon-crawling, required item management due to the inventory being limited to one item at a time, and featured item-based puzzles similar to The Legend of Zelda. Dragon Slayer's overhead action-RPG formula was used in many later games. Along with its competitor, Hydlide, Dragon Slayer laid the foundations for the action RPG genre, including franchises such as Ys and The Legend of Zelda.

About Dragon Slayer

Dragon Slayer is a Action, Arcade, Role-playing (RPG) game released in 1984 developed by Nihon Falcom that offers Single player gameplay from a bird view / isometric perspective playable on FM-7, MSX, PC-8800 Series with 5 user ratings averaging 59.8/100. The game explores themes like Fantasy. If you enjoy Dragon Slayer, you might also like similar games in our database of 45,000+ titles.

Basic Info

Release Date: October 1, 1984

IGDB Rating: 59.8/100 (5)

Rating Count: 5

IGDB ID: 72810

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Additional Information

IGDB Rating: 59.8/100 (5 votes)

Release Date: October 1, 1984

IGDB ID: 72810

Series: Dragon Slayer

Платформы 5

FM7

MSX

PC88

PC98

X1

Genres 3

Action Arcade Role-playing (RPG)

Themes 1

Fantasy

Player Perspectives 1

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes 1

Single player

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Developers

Nihon Falcom

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Publishers

Nihon Falcom

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Square

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Keywords

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