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Dragon Slayer (ドラゴンスレイヤー, Doragon Sureiyā) is a series of role-playing video games by Nihon Falcom. The first Dragon Slayer game is an early action role-playing game , released in 1984 for the NEC PC-8801 and ported by Square for the MSX . [ 1 ]
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Dragon Slayer laid the foundations for the action role-playing game genre, influencing future series like Ys. [7] [8] [9] Xanadu was an early real-time action RPG with full-fledged character statistics, and it introduced several innovative gameplay mechanics, such as the Karma morality system, individual experience for equipped items, [3] a heavy emphasis on puzzle-solving, [9] equipment that ...
A Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes Barcode Battler card set was also released by Epoch Co. in 1992. The PC Engine version was released in the United States for the TurboGrafx-CD and was the only game in the series released in the US until The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion , the PlayStation Portable remake .
The Song of the Quarkbeast is the second book in the Dragonslayer series by Jasper Fforde. It is set in an alternate world in which magic is real, but has become weakened and is also being replaced by modern technology. The setting is almost like modern Britain, except that it is split into a number of small states.
Asghan: The Dragon Slayer is a fantasy-themed hack-and-slash action role-playing video game developed by Silmarils and released in December 1998. Players take on the persona of Asghan, a warrior prince who swears to avenge the death of his father by dragons.
Almost as soon as he begins, however, he is mortally wounded by a mysterious warrior named Dvorak and must undergo a life-saving process which binds him to Harlech. He will now die if he ever leaves – unless he can find the fabled Dragon Slayer sword, which is the only item capable of severing his ties with Harlech and giving him his life back.
Dragon Slayer is an early example of the action role-playing game genre, which it laid the foundations for. [2] Building on the prototypical action role-playing elements of Panorama Toh (1983), created by Yoshio Kiya and Nihon Falcom, [10] as well as Namco's The Tower of Druaga (1984), [11] Dragon Slayer is often considered the first Japanese action role-playing game.