![]() ![]() None of those games ended up having the lasting appeal and addictiveness of one of its other contemporaries, though – the first-party Nintendo sports sim known simply as Ice Hockey. Nintendo had a fairly diverse lineup of sports titles introduced for the NES early on in the system's life cycle, including 8-bit interpretations of soccer, tennis, volleyball and even downhill slalom skiing. Colin Moriarty, IGN Guides Associate Editor I bought my own cart off of eBay and experienced the wonders of this influential grinding J-RPG without the help of my peers. Watching my neighbors play the series endlessly as a child, my first independent go-around with Dragon Warrior was when I was in the 8th grade in 1997. ![]() The catastrophic data loss that resulted ruined many a gamers' month. And woe is the gamer who forgot to hold down the Reset button when turning off his NES. Because of that, there was no rushing around Dragon Warrior was for patient gamers only. No sooner would an unprepared adventurer leave a town and cross a bridge into a new area than he would find himself smashed by an enemy much stronger than he. Dragon Warrior is an old-school grinding RPG that necessitated acute attention to leveling up, equipment management and smart planning. However, word of mouth combined with a Nintendo Power promotion that sent copies of the game around the country allowed it to blow up. ![]() RPGs were still an extremely niche genre at the time and Dragon Warrior was no guaranteed hit. Known as Dragon Quest in Japan, Dragon Warrior was one of the NES's early smash hits that didn't come from Nintendo itself, even though it was released nearly three years after it saw the light of day on its native Japanese Famicom. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Gameīefore Final Fantasy, there was Dragon Warrior. Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Troubleīattletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate TeamĪ Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia ![]()
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